Creating a category
- To create a category, click Content » Categories.
- On Categories page perform one of the following:
- If you have not created any categories, the system displays the following in the center of the screen:

- If you have already created one or more categories, the system displays all created categories and the following button in the toolbar of Categories page:

NOTE: If you are working in multilingual mode, before creating a category, you must first choose the language in which you want to create the news item. Select the language from Languages dropdown box in the right of the page.
- For more information about different languages, see Managing languages.
- Click Create a category or Create a Category respectively.
The Create a category page appears.
- Enter the name of the category.
- Choose between the following radio buttons:
- No parent
The category you want to create is a top level category.
- Select a parent…
The category you want to create is under another category. For example, animals can be the parent category of mammals, and mammals can be the parent category of cats.
A list of existing categories appears. Select the parent category of the new category and click Done.
- To add a description for the category, click Click to add a description.
In the input field that appears, enter the description of the category.
- In URL name, you can change the automatically generated URL of the category by clicking Change button and entering the new URL in the input field that appears.
- By clicking Advanced, you can perform the following:
- Enter synonyms of the category.
You can filter your content items by the name of the category or by its synonyms.
- Change the name used in the code by developers to refer to the category, by clicking Change.
- When you are finished click one of the following:
- Create
The category is created and the system returns you to Categories page.
- Create and add another.
Use this button if you want to create more categories.
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