Learning How to Use UH WordPress

Creating a News Categorized Page

As you create more posts featuring news-related and events-related content, you'll want a page that features these posts in a chronological order. To do this, you need to assign your posts a category or categories that your "landing" page can filter. Otherwise, all posts published will display on the "landing" page.

• Assigning a Category
• Creating a Category Page

Assigning a Category

1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Screen (Dashboard).
2. In the left navigation pane, click the 'Posts' tab.
3. Either click an existing Post or choose to create a new Post.
4. On the right-hand side settings sidebar, click the 'Post' tab.
5. From the settings sidebar, click 'Categories'.
6. A list of your categories will show up with checkboxes. Add your post to one or more categories by checking them, or by quickly adding a new category within the post by filling out the two fields and clicking the 'Add New Category' box. Depending on your Permalinks settings, you may have a dropdown to select the primary category. This will determine which category will show up in the URL. Each category may be assigned to a Category Parent, allowing you to set up a hierarchy within the category structure.
7. Click 'Publish' or 'Update' to save your changes.

 

 

Creating a Category Page

1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Screen (Dashboard).
2. In the left navigation pane, click the 'Posts' tab.
3. Under 'Posts', click on 'Categories'.
4. To add a new category landing page, enter the fields under 'Add a New Category'.
   
   

   

   
   

   Name

   The title of the Category page.

   Slug

   Permalink URL of the Category page. For example, if you chose "news", the permalink may result as

   http://www.hawaii.edu/sitename/news

   
   or

   http://manoa.hawaii.edu/sitename/news

   
   depending on the URL your website is being hosted under.
   

   Parent Category (Optional)

   Each category may be assigned to a Category Parent, allowing you to set up a hierarchy within the category structure.

   Description

   This is the body of your Category page. Coding in basic HTML is allowed here to help format your content.