{"id":678,"date":"2014-12-17T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T10:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/?page_id=678"},"modified":"2025-03-13T19:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:07:28","slug":"categories-and-tags-wp4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/how-to\/editing-posts-pages\/categories-and-tags-wp4\/","title":{"rendered":"Categories and Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Categories and Tags are powerful ways to organise your posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(e-Portfolio blogs that use the e-Portfolio plugin have special <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/e-portfolios\/e-portfolios-profile-tags\/\"><em>Profile Tags<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Categories and tags can be added to a post in the post editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Categories and tags can be used in menus to create pages that contain a collection of posts with that catergory or tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lists of categories and tag or tag-clouds can be displayed in a blog <em>widget<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Categorie &amp; Tags are added to post when editing, both the classic Editor and the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/how-to\/the-block-editor\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3737\">Blocks<\/a> editor have metaboxes for editing these taxonomies. The Screenshots below are from the classic editor, the block editor metaboxes are similar and are accessed from the  Post Tab of the Settings Sidebar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2014\/12\/categories-and-tags.png\" alt=\"Screenshot Categories and Tags Metaboxes\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Category Meta Box in the Classic Editor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tags<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tags can be added by typing them into the tag field and clicking <strong>Add<\/strong><strong> [1]<\/strong>. Multiple tags can be added using a comma to separate the tags. Once tags are added they can be seen below the tag field with a small x before each tag. <strong>[2]<\/strong> You can remove tags from a post by clicking the x.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By clicking <strong>Choose from the most used tags in Post Tags<\/strong><strong> [3]<\/strong> you can show a list of tags that have been used before. This will help on blogs with lots of tags, for example e-portfolios, where mistyping can result in confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When posts are tagged a list of posts with the same tag can be found at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/<strong>LA<\/strong>\/<strong>BLOGNAME<\/strong>\/tag\/<strong>TAGNAME<\/strong>\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can display a \u2018cloud\u2019 of tag links on your blog by using the Tag Cloud widget. This can be added to your blog sidebar in the Widgets admin page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2014\/12\/edit-post-lsaquo-screencasts-mdash-wordpress.png\" alt=\"Screenshot: Adding tags, Tags Metabox\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Categories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Categories can be added by checking item in the Category list [<strong>1<\/strong>] in the Post editor. New Categories can be created in the post editor using the field at the bottom of the list[<strong>2<\/strong>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Categories can be used to produce &nbsp;page of posts with the same Category. Categories can be displayed in the site <strong>menus<\/strong>. You can also add a list of Categories to the side bar by using the Categories Widget. You can do this from the Widgets page in the dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2014\/12\/categories.png\" alt=\"Screenshot Categories Metabox Add a Category\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NB. Categories will not appear in the widget until there is at least one post using that category.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Categories and tags can be created, edited or deleted from their own page in the Dashboard. These are listed under Posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2021\/12\/13193529\/posts-categories.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2021\/12\/13193529\/posts-categories-500x228.png\" alt=\"Find Categories and Tags by hovering or clicking on Posts.\" width=\"500\" height=\"228\"><\/a>You can sort the lists by count, select multiple tags\/categories and delete them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Categories and Tags are powerful ways to organise your posts. (e-Portfolio blogs that use the e-Portfolio plugin have special Profile Tags) Categories and tags can be added to a post in the post editor. Categories and tags can be used in menus to create pages that contain a collection of posts with that catergory or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/how-to\/editing-posts-pages\/categories-and-tags-wp4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Categories and Tags<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":5793,"menu_order":250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-678","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/678\/revisions\/4997"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}