How to Create a WordPress Category Directory? WP Category Management

new mediafor people to learnWordPress websitedoWeb Promotion, assigning articles with different topics to different categories can help visitors find the content they want and improve the user experience.

Therefore, it is necessary for yourE-commerceWebsites create article categories.

So how does WordPress create and manage article categories?Let's take a look today.

Before creating a taxonomy, it's a good idea to have a clear idea of ​​the direction of your website's content and list your preferred taxonomy name (usually 2-6 words).

WordPress Categories

Log in to the WordPress backend → Articles→ Categories

You can see the category creation and category management interface ▼

How do I add a new category?

By default, there are 4 options for adding categories:

1. Name
2. Alias
3. parent category
4. Description

1) Name

• The name of the category, usually 2-6 words

As shown below in the WordPress category "Wechat marketing shown ▼

2) Aliases

• Mainly used for URLs in classified directories.
• https://www.chenweiliang.com/china-phone-number is the category"Chinese mobile number" alias.
• (WordPress will automatically add /category to the URL by default to distinguish it from article categories)

3) Parent category

• The default is the first-level category, and sub-categories can also be created under the first-level category;
• If the content of the first-level category can also be classified into more detailed sections, please consider adding sub-categories.

3) Description

• Describes the content of this category, and some WordPress themes call description as the category's description.

How to default classification settings?

The main purpose of the default classification is that if the classification of the article is not manually specified when writing the article, it will be automatically divided into the default classification.

• log inWordPress backend → Settings→ Compose
• You can set the "Default Article Category".

How to manage existing taxonomy?

By placing the mouse on the category name, the management menu of the category will appear ▼

• Edit | Quick Edit | Delete | View

As shown in the "e-commerce" of the WordPress category in the following figure▼

• You can click to view it.

It's important to note that if a category is the "default category" and cannot be deleted, you can first set another category as the default and then delete that category.

How can I check the category ID?

Sometimes, for example, some WordPress theme setting options need to fill in the category ID to call the content of the category, in this case you need to check the category ID

Hover over the category name and right-click "Copy Link Address" to get the following link:

https: //域名/edit-tags.php?action=edit&taxonomy=category&tag_ID=1&post_type=post

• among them ID=1 is the ID of this category

The above is the basic introduction of WordPress categories, if you have any questions, you can leave a message.

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