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Warning: this won’t be a cookbook set of step by step instructions. For
the sake of brevity, it is assumed that you’re fairly comfortable with
using your online newsletter already. If you need more details, please
feel free to email us.
What is the purpose of categories? You’ve
seen the choice to put your entry into categories. You’ve seen the spot
under each entry where it lists all the categories to which an entry
belongs. You may have even seen the category archive links in the
sidebar.
Basically, categories are an arbitrary way to split
your content up to make it more accessible—both for you and for your
readers.
After using your online newsletter for several months,
you may start to build up a lot of content. While there are several
ways/views to see old content, categories are one of the more useful
ways.
To create categories, click the categories button in the
left sidebar of the admin interface, type in the various categories of
entries you think you might like and save your changes. Of course, you
can always come back and change or delete categories.
Warning: don’t delete the “sticky” category even if you don’t use it.
At
this point, you can start assigning categories to your entries. You can
assign each entry to multiple categories if you so desire. Also, if you
want to assign categories to entries en masse (without editing each
entry one at a time), use the “Power-Editing Mode”. To access
“Power-Editing Mode”, click the “Edit Entries” button and look for the
link that says “Open power-editing mode”.
Once you start assigning categories, visitors will see your category assignments in two places.- There
is a “This entry was posted in the following categories:” note after
each entry showing its category. If a visitor finds an entry
particularly interesting, they can easily click on the link to view
similar entries.
- Category archives in the sidebar. This
shows all the categories that you’ve created and links to the archive
page for each category.
The category archives page shows all
entries in a particular category sorted by date with the newest entries
on the top. Only the title and first 25 words of each entry are
displayed. If a visitor is interetested in a particular entry, they can
click the link to read the entire entry.
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