How to Delete a Category in WordPress Categories in WordPress serve to create a hierarchy for posts to give a system of organization. Without categorization and tagging, posts would be a scattered mess only able to be sorted by date and title. Creating categories was covered in depth here but today we’re going to cover how to delete categories. There are a number of reasons why one would want to do this from redesigning the organization to just general web housekeeping. Deleting a Category in WordPress Deleting a category in [...]

How to Add Categories in WordPress A category in WordPress is a way of organizing content/posts into nice and neat sections. Whenever developers create a category a corresponding page is created with all posts that fall under that category. Posts are assigned categories individually via the post editor or in bulk via All Posts. Adding Categories in WordPress Adding categories in WordPress is a simple four step process. Step One: Login to WordPress First, log into the WordPress dashboard. In order to create a category sufficient permissions will need to [...]

What is a Slug in WordPress and How to Edit Slugs What is a Slug? A slug within web terms can be defined as the editable part of the URL. The slug is located at the end of the url after the base domain prefix and often contains relevant keywords with hyphen separators. Permalink structures can also influence the slug by including date, time, author, post id, etc. which can be changed via Settings. By default the slug takes the title of the page or post, however this can be changed. Think about the slug as [...]