Categories help organize your news into logical groupings. Before creating news items, set up your category structure.
Creating Categories
- Navigate to Media > News > Manage categories
- Click Create news category
- Enter a descriptive name (e.g., "Parish Announcements," "Youth Ministry," "Saints' Lives")
- Configure options:
- RSS: Enable if you want this category to appear in RSS feeds
- Search: Enable to make this category searchable on your site
- Click Save Changes
Organizing Categories
Reorder categories by dragging and dropping them in the list. This order affects how they appear in category selection menus.
Managing Category Contents
Click any category name to see all news items within it. From here you can:
- Create new items in that category
- Reorder items by priority
- Edit or delete existing items