Managing Categories:

• About Categories
• Adding Categories
• Assigning Categories to Posts
• Assigning Categories to Events
• Assigning Categories to Assets or Images

About Categories

Categories are useful labels that you can assign to news / blog posts, events, and other content types.

You can think of categories as topics. If you have a recipe blog, for example, you might have these categories: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Meat, Vegetarian, and Vegan. A recipe for your famous Vegetarian Lasagna would be categorized under "Lunch", "Dinner", and "Vegetarian", since the recipe falls under those broad topics.

Categories provide a great way for users to navigate your Blog / Publication or Events calendar. By clicking on a category link, they can see all articles or events related to that topic. By assigning your posts or events to categories, you're providing your users with a better experience.

Adding Categories

Before you categorize your posts, you need to create some categories.  To add new categories:

1. Click Categories from the Content Types menu.
2. Click Add Category.
3. In the Name field, type the category name.
4. Click Save and Finish.
5. Repeat to add more categories.

Assigning Categories to Posts

You can assign categories to news or blog posts while editing the category, or while editing the post.

While editing the category

This is useful if you want to assign multiple posts to a category at the same time.

1. Click Categories from the Content Types menu. 
2. Click Edit next to the category you'd like to assign posts to.
3. Click News items in this category in the left sidebar menu.
4. Click Select next to the post you'd like to categorize.  Repeat for as many posts as you'd like.
5. Click Finish to exit the category editing.

While editing the post

This is useful if you want to assign multiple categories to one post.

1. Click News / Posts from the Content Types menu. 
2. Click Edit next to the post you'd like to categorize.
3. Click Assign to Categories in the left sidebar menu.
4. Click Select next to the category you'd like to apply to the post.  Repeat for as many categories as you'd like.
5. Click Finish.

Assigning Categories to Events

1. Click Events from the Content Types menu. 
2. Click Edit next to the event you'd like to categorize.
3. Click Select Categories in the left sidebar menu.
4. Click Select next to the category you'd like to apply to the event  Repeat for as many categories as you'd like.
5. Click Finish.

Assigning Categories to Assets or Images

Other content types may make use of categories as well. The procedure for adding them is basically the same.

1. Click Assets or Images from the Content Types menu. 
2. Click Edit next to the event you'd like to categorize.
3. Click Assign to Categories in the left sidebar menu.
4. Click Select next to the desired category. Repeat for as many categories as you'd like.
5. Click Finish.