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Categories will allow you to curate your posts into different sections of your research topic. The categories you create will be specific to you and how you wish to categorize your research.

To begin creating a category, navigate to your Dashboard again. Once there, in the left hand column, hover your cursor over Posts and select Categories from the slide-out menu.

This Categories page is very similar to the Tags page, and they are created in much the same way. In the “Name” box, enter the name of the Category you’d like to create.

In the slug box, enter the URL-friendly version of your category. For example, if your category name is Heart Health then an example slug would be hearthealth, or heart-health.

The parent box is used for if you want to create a sub-category, so we will leave that alone for now. You can also leave the description field empty.

Once your category is named, simply click on the blue Add New Category button.

adding new category

Your category will now be displayed over in the box on the right-hand side of the screen. You may create as many categories as you like, to suit your research.

category list

Adding a Category to a Post

Now that you have some categories made, the next step is to assign one to your posts. To do this, either create a new post, or edit a post that you’ve already created.

Once on the post page, look to the right-hand side of the page to find a box that says Categories. Here you should see all of the categories that you’ve made.

adding category to post

There will also be an Uncategorized option that will be selected by default, so click the checkbox to the left of it to deselect it.

category box

Now all you have to do is click the checkboxes next to each category that you would like to assign to your post. A post can be assigned multiple categories.

You can also create a new category right from this box if you need to.

Once you’ve assigned a category, publish or update your post by clicking the blue Publish or Update button located in the Publish box on the right-hand side of the page.

publish post