Organizing posts in categories and photo albums

Categories help you organize your articles into groupings that make your blog easier to navigate.

When posting or editing a blog entry, you have the option of classifying it under one or more categories (or Photo Albums, if your entry is a photo). Your readers can then choose to read all the posts in your blog, or only those posted under a specific category.

Once you have created categories or photo albums, new posts can be added directly to the appropriate category in your blog.

Note that subcategories are listed in a way that shows the categories to which they belong. For example, consider the category "Food and Drink" — if it has a subcategory called "Beer", it would be listed in the Categories list as "Food and Drink/Beer". If "Beer" in turn had a subcategory called "Premium", it would be listed as "Food and Drink/Beer/Premium".

For details on organizing all the categories in your blog, see Organizing Blog Entries in Categories and Photo Albums.


To select a category for your blog entry

1.

Open the Post tab on the Publisher Control Panel, and complete the information for your article, review or photos posting.

2.

In the Article Options or Photo Options area on the right side of the page, in the Categories section, select one or more categories or subcategories to which you want your posting to belong. You must select at least one category to which your entry belongs:

Note: The default category for a blog is Main Page. Administrators create additional categories as required.

3.

If you need to create a new category for your posting, type the name of the category in the Create new category text box.

4.

Select the Bubble up to higher categories check box if you want your posting to appear in higher-level categories. Clear the check box if you do not want your posting to bubble up.

Note: You use the bubble-up option if there is a category hierarchy, such that a main category contains a series of sub-categories. If a posting is contained in a subcategory (or a sub-subcategory), selecting the bubble up option results in the posting appearing in the main category and the subcategories.

If an article bubbles up into a restricted category, it is only visible to those readers who have permission to read that category. See Restricted categories and photo albums for more information.