{"id":41961,"date":"2011-02-11T13:09:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T18:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=41961"},"modified":"2013-04-11T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T17:56:06","slug":"categories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/posts\/categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Navigate to your site&#8217;s <strong>Dashboard<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select<strong> Posts<\/strong> on the left side of the screen.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62181\" height=\"192\" width=\"139\" title=\"new-post-1\" alt=\"new-post-1\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/02\/new-post-1.jpg\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Four links will now be displayed: <strong>Posts<\/strong>, <strong>Add New<\/strong>, <strong>Categories, <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Post Tags<\/strong>. Select <strong>Categories<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62189\" height=\"135\" width=\"135\" title=\"new-category-1\" alt=\"new-category-1\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/02\/new-category-1.jpg\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Name your category.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62188\" height=\"154\" width=\"434\" title=\"new-category-2\" alt=\"new-category-2\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/02\/new-category-2.jpg\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Add Category<\/strong>.<br \/>\n&lt;img class=&quot;alignnone size-full wp-image-62187&quot; height=&quot;113&quot; width=&quot;448&quot; title=&quot;new-category-3&quot; alt=&quot;new-category-3&quot; src=&quot;\/tech\/files\/2011\/02\/new-category-3.jpg&quot; \/<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You have now created a category for your posts.\u00a0 By repeating these steps, you can create multiple categories.\u00a0 When you create a new post, you can choose to assign it to a category.\u00a0 This allows you to sort and view posts by a certain category, rather than searching through all posts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/posts\/create\/\">&gt;&gt; Create a Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigate to your site&#8217;s Dashboard. Select Posts on the left side of the screen. Four links will now be displayed: Posts, Add New, Categories, and\u00a0Post Tags. Select Categories. Name your category. Click Add Category. &lt;img class=&quot;alignnone size-full wp-image-62187&quot; height=&quot;113&quot; width=&quot;448&quot; title=&quot;new-category-3&quot; alt=&quot;new-category-3&quot; src=&quot;\/tech\/files\/2011\/02\/new-category-3.jpg&quot; \/ You have now created a category for your posts.\u00a0 By repeating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3321,"featured_media":0,"parent":41936,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41961"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64900,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41961\/revisions\/64900"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}