Adding Categories and Tags to WordPress

Adding Tags

Adding Categories

Go to Sidebar Menu > Posts > Categories

The great thing about categories is that they can be created ahead of time. You’ll notice there’s a field here to add specific category names, so I'll do “Islands.” You can put a slug in, and that’s a term that makes it function properly. This is also good for your SEO (search engine optimization). You can also create something called a “Parent Category, " which I’ll talk about in a moment.

You can add a description as well. Some themes may show the description, but this information is most valuable for the build team that’s working on the site itself.

I’m not going to put a slug in, because I’m going to allow it to add the slug in for me.

So, I’m going to choose Add New Category. And there it is.

Notice it self-populated a slug. All it did was take the capital letter away.

To show you, I’ll put in “Things to Do.” And notice I not only have capitals, but spaces. Now I’ll input that category. And see what it does to the slug—it takes the spaces out and replaces them with a dash or hyphen instead.

We can also deal with sub or child categories. So let’s say I want to have the ability to browse all of the posts about "Islands, " but I also want to be able to search for "Maui" in particular. So, I can put “Maui” in here, but I want it to be a child to the parent “Islands.” So I’ll pick that. Hit Add New Category. And there it is! You’ll notice it shows you with this em-dash that it’s a sub or child category for “Islands.” Easy peasy!

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