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WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition

You're reading from   WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition A comprehensive guide to WordPress development from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787285705
Length 412 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing WordPress 2. Getting Started with WordPress FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Blog Content 4. Pages, Media, and Importing/Exporting Content 5. Plugins - What They Are and Why You Need Them 6. Choosing and Installing Themes 7. Customizing Your Website Appearance/Design 8. Developing Your Own Theme 9. Social Media Integration, Podcasting, and HTTPS 10. Developing Plugins, Widgets, and an Introduction to the REST API 11. Community Blogging 12. Creating a Non-Blog Website Part One - The Basics 13. Creating a Non-Blog Website Part Two - E-Commerce Websites and Custom Content Elements

Adding and managing categories

Earlier in this chapter, you learned how to add a category quickly when adding a post. Now, let's talk about how to manage your categories in a bigger way. First, navigate to Posts | Categories in your wp-admin. You'll see the Categories page:

This is a useful page that combines the ability to add, edit, and review all of your categories. As you can see, any category that you've added via the Edit Post page is listed here. You can Edit, Quick Edit, or Delete any category by clicking on the appropriate link in the list.

If you add a category on this page, you can also choose its Slug. The slug is the short bit of text that shows up in the URL of your site if you have pretty permalinks enabled. If you don't choose a slug, WordPress will create one for you by taking the category name, reducing it to all lowercase, replacing spaces...

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