What is a blog category for?

What a category actually produces

A page. The blog's Post list page carries a Category title element and a Category description element, and both are replaced by whichever category a visitor is looking at.

So a category is not only a way of labelling a post. It is a URL of its own, with a heading and an introduction that can be written for it.

The five fields

The three that arrive with the blog

Creating a blog creates three categories automatically, with default names. Rename one through the three dots, then Settings. Delete one through the three dots, then Delete.

All of it happens in one place. Open the Sites tab, click Blogs, click the blog's name, then Categories in the blog's own menu. New ones come from the Create button on that screen.

systeme.io's own example of a category name is Category 4-Tips, which is what shows as the title of the category page.

Putting a post in one

At the moment a post is created, the Categories field takes one or several.

Creating that post starts at Sites, then Blogs, then the blog's name, then Posts, then Create. The Categories field sits inside the popup that opens next to the title, the short description, the URL path and the image.

Afterwards, go to Posts, click the three dots next to the post, choose Settings, tick the box for the category, and Save. A post is not limited to one.

Where a reader meets them

• On the post. The post layout carries a Blog post categories element, replaced by the categories assigned to that post.
• In the listing. Each row of the blog post listing shows the post's category alongside its title, publication date and short description.
• In the carousel. The Latest blog posts carousel has a Category setting, so it can be pointed at one group only.