7 Easy Steps to Add Categories in WordPress

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Follow These 7 Easy Steps To Add Categories in WordPress.

  1. Login to your WordPress account.
  2. Click on the menu Posts > Categories and the categories page will open.
  3. Type category name in the category field.
  4. Type slug name for the category (slug is the URL-friendly version of the name) and it's optional.
  5. Then choose a parent category if you want to define any parent category for the new category. This is also an optional field.
  6. Type the description for the category in the description field and it's optional.
  7. Then click on Add New Category button to finally save the category information.

Now you can use this newly created Category into your WordPress blog post.

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