What is a Category?
A Category is one of several options available as a secondary or tertiary level to your Site. The primary characteristics of a Category are:
- Allows child Pages to be created and grouped underneath (at the tertiary or quarternary level); those child pages will NOT appear in the local navigation menu;
- Rather, they will appear in the main body of the Category page with corresponding title, thumbnail, and “teaser” text.
Why Use a Category?
A Category is best used when you need to group multiple, related pages together into a section of your website, and they can be represented with a shared visual identity. For example, the “Former Presidents” section within the Office of the President website: https://www.ithaca.edu/office-president/former-presidents, or the “After Scheduling Your Recital” in the School of Music’s Student Resources site: https://www.ithaca.edu/academics/school-music/current-student-resources/concert-recital-planning/after-scheduling-your-recital.
A Category will serve as a secondary (or tertiary) landing page. The “teaser” content (page title, thumbnail, and teaser text) will direct users to the individual child Pages of the Category.
How to Create a Category
Go to the landing page of the Site to which you want to add the Category and click “Add Category” from the edit options above the page content (below the blue header with the site title).
This will bring you to the Category creation page. Fill in the Title field to name your Category. (Remember, this will serve as the title of the page, appear in the local navigation menu, and form the URL.)
Paragraph types available in the “Add ___ to Content” dropdown menu are limited to the following for Categories: Text, Callout, and Embed Code.
Keep the state as “Draft” to save your work without publishing the Topic, or change to “Published” to make the site live.
Click the “Save” button.
Note: You will need to create Pages to populate your Category once it is created.