{"id":408,"date":"2023-02-28T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T02:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/?p=408"},"modified":"2023-02-28T06:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T06:03:41","slug":"wordpress-add-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wordpress-add-category\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress &#8211; Add Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this chapter, we will study about how to\u00a0<strong>Add Categories<\/strong>\u00a0in WordPress. Category is used to indicate sections of your site and group related posts. It sorts the group content into different sections. It is a very convenient way to organize the posts.<\/p>\n<p>To access the Category section, follows the mentioned steps \u2212<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step (1)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 Click on\u00a0<strong>Posts \u2192 Categories<\/strong>\u00a0option in WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/manage.trustedhosting.in\/index.php?rp=\/images\/kb\/166_category.png\" alt=\"WordPress add category\" width=\"1000\" height=\"890\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step (2)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 The\u00a0<strong>Categories<\/strong>\u00a0page is displayed as shown in the following screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/manage.trustedhosting.in\/index.php?rp=\/images\/kb\/167_category-1.png\" alt=\"WordPress add category\" width=\"1000\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following are the details of the fields on Categories.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li><strong>Name<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 Enter the unique name of categories.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slug<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 A word chosen to describe your post. It is specified in the tags URL.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parent<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 By selecting the parent category from dropdown, you can set the particular category as sub-category or can keep it as None.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Description<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 Add brief description of your category. It is optional.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Step (3)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 After filling all the information about Categories, click on\u00a0<strong>Add New Category<\/strong>\u00a0button.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step (4)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 After clicking on\u00a0<strong>Add New Category<\/strong>, the new created category will get displayed on the right side of the page as shown in the following screen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/manage.trustedhosting.in\/index.php?rp=\/images\/kb\/168_category-2.png\" alt=\"WordPress add category\" width=\"1000\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this chapter, we will study about how to\u00a0Add Categories\u00a0in WordPress. Category is used to indicate sections of your site&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress-complete-tutorials","tag-wordpress-complete-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}