Categories, Tags and Menus

It Starts with Your Blog Post

All of your blog posts should have one or more categories and one or more tags. You can also make related blog posts available to your visitors via a Category menu item.

Here’s how to do it.

Categories

When you create a new blog post, you can assign one or more categories using the Category item in the right-hand sidebar.

If you have previously assigned categories to blog posts, they will be listed and you can select one or more from the list.

Whether or not you have existing categories, you can add a new one.

Adding a New Category

Click Add New Category.



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KenBoyUK Premium
I'm not sure when this was posted, should we still be adding tags to every post?, or is this out of date?
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phil1944 Premium
I add multiple (relevant) tags and categories to every post. Why would you not?
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KenBoyUK Premium
I only asked because in your training post you said tags may have become redundant or ignored by Google, and I was not sure how old the post was. I see some videos in WA from 2012 which are well obsolete, I will use categories and tags - thanks
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phil1944 Premium
I use categories to group related posts together in a menu. It's certainly possible that categories have become less relevant as Google moves towards content quality and value but as they are unlikely to do any harm and it takes only a few seconds to add them, I continue to do so.
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FreyS1 Premium
Thanks! It’s helpful
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phil1944 Premium
I'm glad to hear that, Frey.
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SamonneP Premium
Thanks for this Stephen 😊
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phil1944 Premium
It's Phil... but you're welcome.
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SamonneP Premium
I so apologize Phil, thank you. Forgive me 🙏
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phil1944 Premium
Of course. No problems.
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Zoopie Premium
Good and to the point, well done.
Stephen
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phil1944 Premium
Thanks, Stephen. I appreciate it.
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