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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\n\n\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\n\n\n

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

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The Categories<\/strong> screen.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

Add New Category<\/h2>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n

Name<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To reiterate, the category name must be unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slug<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The category slug must be 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\n\n\n

Parent<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Use this drop-down if you want to make 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 page just like categories, except they will typically be nested under their parent categories. When someone visits your site and clicks the “Photos” category link, all posts in “Photos” and all its sub-categories will be displayed. Clicking the “Oregon Coast” category link 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 page. The only difference is that the list of categories of which a particular post is actually a member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n

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

Table of Categories<\/h2>\n\n\n\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 not part of a category’s name; they are there only to show hierarchy. The table of categories contains the following columns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n