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Categories
Sorting your blog posts and projects into big topics, each with a page of its own.
A category is a big topic, such as “Kitchens” or “Decks”. It sorts your blog posts and your projects into groups. Every category gets a page of its own on your website, listing everything in it.
Your posts and projects share one list of categories. A “Kitchens” category can hold a post and a project at the same time.
Categories only matter if your website has the blog or the portfolio add-on. Without them, there is nothing to sort, and you can skip this page.
Where to find it
Go to Content, then Website, then Categories. On some websites it sits under Manage, then Categories instead. Both open the same screen.
Only Editors and Admins can open it.
The screen lists your categories. A category inside another one sits under it, pushed in a little. Each row has a pencil icon and a trash icon.
Adding a category
- Click Add Category.
- Type a Name, such as
Kitchens. This is what visitors read. - The Slug fills itself in from the name. It is the last part of the category’s web address. Leave it.
- Pick a Parent, or leave it on None (top level). A parent puts this category inside another one, such as “Kitchens” inside “Remodels”.
- Write a line or two in Description (optional). See below.
- Click Create.
You can also make a category from inside a post or project, as you pick one. Posts shows how.
The category’s own page
Every category gets a page that lists everything in it. Blog posts list at
/blog/category/ and then the slug. Projects list at /work/category/ and
then the slug. A category inside another one has both slugs in its address,
such as /blog/category/remodels/kitchens.
The page’s heading is the category’s Name. Its first line is the Description. A page for a parent category lists the posts in the categories under it too.
The chips at the top of your Blog page and your Work page link to these pages.
Tip
Write a description for every category. It tells a visitor what the page is about. A page with a description, or with three or more posts on it, is also the kind search engines list. A thin one is kept out of search results.
Changing a category
Click the pencil icon on its row. Change the Name or the Description, then click Update. The change is on your website right away.
Warning
Changing the Slug changes the address of the category’s page. Old links to it stop working. Leave the slug alone once the page is live.
Deleting a category
Warning
Deleting a category takes it off every post and project at once, and its page is gone. The posts and projects stay. Nothing brings the category back, so you would have to make it again and pick it on every entry.
Click the trash icon on its row. The panel asks Delete Category? Click Delete to go ahead.
Leave these alone
Three more buttons sit at the top of the screen.
- Add to posts gives one category to many posts at once. You paste the web addresses of up to 50 posts, one per line. It is handy, but you can always pick categories on each post instead.
- New Taxonomy makes a whole new kind of list, next to Categories and Tags. Your website does not show a new list anywhere. Do not use it.
- Delete taxonomy, in the three dots menu, deletes the whole Categories list, with every category in it. Never use it.
Before you launch
Your website came with one example category. Its name starts with EXAMPLE. Delete it once your own posts and projects have real categories.
Contact support
Contact us if you deleted the Categories list by mistake, or if categories stop showing on your posts.
Email support@lookoutridgeit.com. Getting support says what to put in the message.
Last updated Oct 20, 2026