{"id":637,"date":"2016-12-30T12:05:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T12:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demon.comz\/?p=637"},"modified":"2016-12-30T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T12:05:53","slug":"how-to-add-a-new-category-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-add-a-new-category-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add a new category in WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> Login to your WordPress admin dashboard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse on Posts and then click on <strong>Categories<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-dashboard-category-option.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Enter the following details <\/strong>in<strong> Add New Category:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Name:<\/strong> Enter your category name such as <strong>Computer<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong>Slug:<\/strong> Enter a slug name or leave this as it is.<br \/>\n<strong>Parent:<\/strong> Leave this to None or should you select a category, it will become a sub-category of your chosen category, and the browser will show a URL like example.com\/technology\/pc<br \/>\n<strong>Description:<\/strong> You can leave this as it is.<\/p>\n<p>Now click on the <strong>Add New Category<\/strong> button.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-category-filling.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard. 2. Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse on Posts and then click on Categories. Enter the following details in Add New Category: Name: Enter your category name such as Computer. Slug: Enter a slug name or leave this as it is. Parent:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}