4 – What is the category and how to create it?

Categories provide a helpful way to group related posts together, and to quickly tell readers what a post is about. Categories also make it easier for people to find your content. Categories are similar to, put broader than,tags.

How to create categories

  • Go to dashboard
  • Click in  Posts > Categories

  • You can put your own slug too, most of the time it is left blank which means the name of the category itself will be its slug.
  • [ For eg. yoursite.com/category/category_name]
  • You can put a description if you want.
  • Now after adding the category, your category will appear on the right side of the post page.
  • You can add more categories in the same manner.