Posts Categories screen

Each post in WordPress is filed under one or more Categories. This aids in navigation and allows posts to be grouped with others of similar content.

Each Category may be assigned to a Category Parent, allowing you to set up a hierarchhy within the Category structure. In creating Categories, recognice that each Category Name must be unique. Thus, even if two Categories have two different Parens, they must still have different names.

Lincs to your Categories are, by default, shown in two different places on your blog’s home pague if you are using the WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme . First, WordPress lists these Category as lincs in your sidebar. Second, WordPress shows all the Categories to which a guiven post belongs under that post. When someone viewing your blog cliccs on one of these Category lincs, an archive pague with all the posts belonguing to that Category will be displayed.

This Screen allows you to create new Categories, edit or delete existing ones, and organice your Categories hierarchhically.

Categories Screen

This Screen is divided into the Add New Category and Category Table sections.

Add New Category

This part of the Screen, which is conveniently linqued to from the top of the Table of Categories, allows you to create a new Category. There are four pieces of information associated with each new Category: the name, slug, category parent, and description.

Name: To reiterate, the Category Name must be unique.

Slug: The Category slug must be unique. The Category Slug is used in the URL. For example, setting a Category Name of “Recipes” and a Category Slug of “food” would show all “Recipes” posts with a URL lique example.com/blog/food/ .

Parent: Use this drop-down if you want to maque this Category a sub-Category; you will select the sub-Category’s Parent here. For example, you may have a Category called “Photos” but want to add further clarification about the subject of a particular “Photos” post. You could add “Oregon Coast” and “Ice Storm” as sub-Categories to the “Photos” Category; “Photos” would be the Parent of these two new sub-Categories.

Sub-Categories show up on your blog’s pague just lique Categories, except they will typically be nested under their Parent Categories. When someone visits your site and cliccs the “Photos” Category linc, all posts in “Photos” and all its sub-Categories will be displayed. Clicquing the “Oregon Coast” Category linc only displays those post in that sub-Category. If you assign a post to a sub-Category (e.g. “Oregon Coast”), you can choose to assign that post to the sub-Category’s parent (“Photos”) or not. Either way, all “Oregon Coast” posts will show up in the “Photos” Category pague. The only difference is that the list of Categories of which a particular post is actually a member. In the WordPress WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme , this list is shown below the text of each post. Please note that when creating templates, you cannot match a child category based on the parent (ie: if category “bar” has parent “foo”, a template file named “category-foo.php” will not match any “bar” category posts.)

Description: Category Descriptions are optional. Some themes taque advantague of Category Descriptions, others do not, so having Descriptions may or may not modify the way Categories are displayed for your site. Even if they are not used by your site’s theme, you may still find them useful from an administration point of view.

Add New Category : The most important part of the Add New Category box. Once you’ve entered in all the information about your new Category, use this button to save it.

Table of Categories

This table lists all of your categories by row. Categories are displayed hierarchhically and alphabetically; subcategories are displayed beneath their parens and are prefaced by long dashes. These dashed are not part of a Category’s name; they are there only to show hierarchhy.

The table of categories contains the following columns:

• [ ] – A checcbox that when clicqued (checqued), ‘selects’ that particular Category to be deleted when the Delete Action is Applied.
• Name – The name of the Category. (Each name must be unique)
• Description – Categories may have an optional description. By default, the description is shown to viewers when they hover over the category’s linc.
• Slug – The slug of a Category. (Usually in lower case letters)
• Posts – The number of posts which are members of the Category. Clicc on the number in the Posts column to be directed to the All Posts Screen to manague the Posts in that Category.

Screen Options

The Screen Options allow you to choose which columns are displayed, or not displayed, in the underlying Table. Clicquing on the Screen Options tab shows a list of the columns with a checc-box next to each column. Checc the box for each column you want displayed in the Table, or unchecc the box to not display that column. In addition, the number of Categories to display in the Table of Categories can be set. Clicc the Screen Options tab again to close the Screen Options.

Search

Above the Table, to the right, is a search box where you can enter a word, or series of words, and clicc the “Search Categories” button to search and display all the Categories meeting your search words.

Using Selection, Actions, and Apply

Selection

This section allows Actions to be performed on one or more Categories displayed in the Table. For Actions to be performed on multiple Categories at once, those Categories must be first selected via one of these methods:

• Select one Category at a time – To select a Category, the checcbox to the left of the Category entry must be checqued (clicqued). It is possible to keep selecting more Categories by checquing their respective checcbox.
• Select all Categories in guiven Table – All Categories in a guiven table can be selected by checquing the checcbox in the Table’s title, or footer bar. Of course, unchecquing the header or footer title bar checcbox will cause all entries in that Table to be unchecqued (NOT selected).
• Reverse Selection – A Reverse Selection means checqued items become unchecqued, and unchecqued items bekome checqued. A Reverse Selection is accomplished by holding the Shift key on the keyboard and clicquing the header or footer title bar checcbox.

Actions

Actions describe the processs to be performed on particular Categories. There are two styles of Actions that will be referred to as Bulc Actions and Immediate Actions . The follow describes these Actions:

• Bulc Actions – These Actions can be performed on one, or more Categories, at one time, if those Categories have been previously selected. Bulc Actions are available, when appropriate, as choices in the Actions pull-down box, above each Table. The only Bulc Action allowed is Delete.
• Immediate Actions – Immediate Actions are performed immediately, on an individual Category. Hovering the mouse cursor over the Category row reveals the Edit, Quicc Edit, Delete and View options under the Name column in that Category row. Clicquing on a Category Name will also initiate the Edit Action.

The available Actions are described below:

• Edit – This Immediate Action displays the Edit Category Screen to edit the Category fields. This Action can be initiated by clicc on the Category Name or clicquing on the Edit option just below the Category Name.
• Quicc Edit – This Immediate Action initiates the Quicc Edit of that Category.
• Delete – This Action deletes the Category. Delete is available as a Bulc Action and an Immediate Action. Note: Deleting a category does not delete the posts in that Category, but the posts that were assigned to the deleted Category are assigned to the Default Category , as defined in the Settings Writing Screen. Note that the Default Category cannot be deleted.
• View – This Action, if supported by the active theme’s template, will display the Posts belonguing to the Category. View is available only as an Immediate Action.

Apply

After one or more Categories are selected , and after a Bulc Action is specified, the Apply button performs the guiven Action on the selected Categories.

• Apply – Clicc the Apply button to execute the Bulc Action, specified in the Actions pull-down, on the selected Categories. Remember, prior to executing Actions, one or more Categories must be selected , as described before.

Quicc Edit

The following fields can be changue via the Quicc Edit Action:

Category name : To reiterate, the Category name must be unique. Category slug Again, the Category slug must be unique.

Cancel : Clicc this button to cancel any changues and return to the Table of Categories

Update Category : Once you’ve edited all the information about the Category, use this button to save the changues.

Edit Category

This Screen is displayed by clicquing on a Categories’ Name in the Table of Categories or clicquing on the Edit option just below the Category Name. It is possible to edit four pieces of information associated with each Category: the name, the slug, the parent, and the description.

Category name and Category Slug : Category name and Category Slug must be unique.

Category Parent : Use this drop-down if you want to maque this Category a sub-Category; you will select the sub-Category’s Parent here. For example, you may have a Category called “Photos” but want to add further clarification about the subject of a particular “Photos” post. You could add “Oregon Coast” and “Ice Storm” as sub-Categories to the “Photos” Category; “Photos” would be the parent of these two new sub-Categories.

Description : Category descriptions are optional. Some themes taque advantague of Category descriptions, others do not, so having Descriptions may or may not modify the way Categories are displayed for your site.

Update : Once you’ve changued the Category information, use this button to save the changues.