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Categories and photo albums allow you to divide your blog into distinct sections. As you add more entries to your blog, you might need to organize your entries. Some of your readers may only be interested in only certain types of articles and not others. You might want to group your photos by event.

This chapter explains some of the functions of categories and photo albums, which provide a way to:

·A way to organize your entries  
 
·A way to keep parts of your blog private  
 
·A way to manage your blog's contributors  


A way to organize your entries

Categories and photo albums are similar to folders or directories on your computer's hard drive; they help organize your articles, reviews, and photos. You could think of categories as similar to files on your hard drive, but there are two crucial differences:

·An article or review can be filed under more than one category at the same time.  
·An photo can be filed under more than one photo album at a time.  

Organizing articles and reviews

Categories are collections of articles and reviews. The default category is called Main Page and is available when you are creating a new article or review entry, but you can create as many additional categories and sub-categories you want.

Organizing photos

Photo albums are collections of photos. The default album is called Photos and is available when you are creating a new photo entry, but you can create as many albums as you want.


A way to keep parts of your blog private

You can restrict access to parts of your blog by storing entries in restricted categories and photo albums. Reasons for restricting access can include:

·confidentiality for use in corporate communications  
·privacy to protect personal information you only want to share with family and friends  
·confidentiality regarding valuable information that should only be available to paying subscribers.  

For more details on restricting access, see Restricted categories and photo albums


A way to manage your weblog's contributors

Categories not only let you manage reading privileges, but writing ones as well. You can use categories to grant specific people permission to post entries, either to specific categories or the entire blog.