How to create a New Category

The website is made up of pages and posts. Pages contain static information (eg the home page) that doesn’t change from month to month. Posts are dynamic and can appear in different places across the website.

A post uses categories to define that post’s purpose. Is the post an Article on CW, for instance, or is it an Event for a Field Weekend. By selecting the appropriate category, a post may invite you to give additional information, An event category, for instance, would include dates & times of the event; information that wouldn’t be necessary on an article about CW, of course.

Creating a new Category.

Let’s use a fictional example. The club decides that it’s going to hold a bring-and-buy sale. This kind of event doesn’t yet have a suitable category – it’s not a field weekend, for instance.

1. Under the Posts menu click Categories.
2. Under Add a New Category add the title of the new category (eg “Bring and Buy Sale”)
3. Ignore the slug.
4. Parent Category – in this case we want the new category to be under the parent Events. Select Events as the parent category. (If you were adding a new category for an article, you would choose Articles as the parent instead).
5. Add a brief description of the new category.
6. Click the [Add New Category] button.

You may now use this category in your posts.