How To Make Parent Category And Sub-Category In WordPress. When you have more than one post with the same theme, it would be better if the posts with the same theme are grouped themselves. If there is more than one other post with the same theme and different from the previous theme, the post-post can also be grouped separately. Grouping can post simplify wordpress blog or website visitors get a post with the same theme. WordPress CMS gives you the convenience to group posts based on the theme of one of them by creating a category (category).
Organizing posts by category will be very useful when there are a lot of posts in WordPress blog or website. WordPress blog or website visitors can take advantage of the category as a link to display the posts with the same theme in order to further explore and focus on a single theme. Categories can be created in Worpress hierarchy, meaning that you create a category in which there are other categories. Category at the top position is called the parent category, and the categories in the down position is called the sub-category. There are several ways to create a category in WordPress is through the Add New Post area and Categories area. The following are the steps to create a parent category and sub-category in the Categories area through WordPress:
How To Make The Parent Category In WordPress
To start making categoy parent and sub-category, go first to the WordPress administration area (Dashboard), click on the menu Posts> Categories.
Enter the name of the parent category to be created in the Name text box. To Slug text box, you can leave blank, fill it with the name of the parent category, or by other names, such as “programming language”. Because they are the parent category, select None from the drop-down selection box labeled Parent. In the Description text box, fill it with a brief description of the category of the parent who made it or leave it blank, and then press the Add New Category.
Parent category that you create will appear in the table to the right of the area.
How To Make The Sub-Category In WordPress
When you have finished making the parent category, you can instantly create a sub-category. If you’ve been out of the WordPress Dashboard, you need to go first into the dashboard area, click the Posts > Categories.
Creating a sub-category are not much different from when creating the parent category except the one thing that you have to specify the parent category from the drop-down text box labeled Parent.
It’s easy, just practice your own in your wordpress blog.
