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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. Categories are normally displayed either around the post title or at the end of the post. They can also be featured in sidebars.<\/p>\n

Each category may be assigned to a parent category, allowing you to set up a hierarchy within the category structure. In creating categories, recognize that each category name must be unique. Thus, even if two categories have two different parents, they must still have different names.<\/p>\n

This screen allows you to create new categories, edit or delete existing ones, and organize your categories hierarchically.<\/p>\n

Sponsors Categories<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

This screen is divided into the Add New Category and category table sections.<\/p>\n

Add New Category<\/h2>\n

This part of the screen 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.<\/p>\n

Name<\/h3>\n

To reiterate, the category name\u00a0must\u00a0be unique.<\/p>\n

Slug<\/h3>\n

The category slug\u00a0must\u00a0be unique. The category slug is used in the URL for the category. For example, setting a category name of “Recipes” and a category slug of “food” would show all “recipes” posts with a URL like blog.com\/food\/. If this field is left empty, WordPress will automatically generate a slug based on the title.<\/p>\n

Parent<\/h3>\n

Use this drop-down if you want to make this category a sub-category; you will select the sub-category\u2019s parent here. For example, you may have a category called \u201cPhotos\u201d but want to add further clarification about the subject of a particular \u201cPhotos\u201d post. You could add \u201cOregon Coast\u201d and \u201cIce Storm\u201d as sub-categories to the \u201cPhotos\u201d category; \u201cPhotos\u201d would be the parent of these two new sub-categories.
\nSub-categories show up on your blog\u2019s page just like categories, except they will typically be nested under their parent categories. When someone visits your site and clicks the \u201cPhotos\u201d category link, all posts in \u201cPhotos\u201d and\u00a0all its sub-categories\u00a0will be displayed. Clicking the \u201cOregon Coast\u201d category link\u00a0only\u00a0displays those post in that sub-category. If you assign a post to a sub-category (e.g. \u201cOregon Coast\u201d), you can choose to assign that post to the sub-category\u2019s parent (\u201cPhotos\u201d) or not. Either way, all \u201cOregon Coast\u201d posts will show up in the \u201cPhotos\u201d category page. The only difference is that the list of categories of which a particular post is actually a member.<\/p>\n

Description<\/h3>\n

Category descriptions are optional. Benevolence does not show category descriptions, so don’t worry about filling this in. However, you might find them useful from an administrative point of view.<\/p>\n

Once you have entered all the information, press\u00a0Add New Category<\/strong> to save it. It will appear in the category table instantly.<\/p>\n

Table of Categories<\/h2>\n

This table lists all of your categories. Categories are displayed hierarchically and alphabetically; subcategories are displayed beneath their parents and are prefaced by long dashes. These dashes are\u00a0not\u00a0part of a category’s name; they are there only to show hierarchy. The table of categories contains the following columns:<\/p>\n