BEBOPS How to Include Categories in a Page
This page details how to add categories into a page
What are Categories?
Categories are labels which can be assigned to multiple pages which have some common data in them.
Why add Categories?
Flagging pages with categories can be very useful for the end user. For example if they were interested in Public Houses they could click on the "Public Houses" category and see a list of all the pages which are in the "Public Houses" category.
Which Categories exist?
If you navigate to "Special Pages" (on the left menu) and select "Categories" within "Lists of Pages" you will see all the existing categories listed. Clicking on a category will list all the pages that have been assigned to that category.
How to create a Category
What if the category i want to use does not exist? Not a problem you do not need to create it. By using the category in your update the category will be created. Before doing this make sure the category does not already exist with a slightly different name e.g. you may be thinking of adding "School" and "Schools" already exists,
How to add Categories
A page can be assigned to multiple categories.
You can add the categories anywhere in the page but the best place to put them is at the end. When you preview the page existing categories are written in blue and those that do not exist are written in red. Before saving the page if you see any in red you need to check the list of categories in case it does exist with a slightly different name.
Example adding Categories
For example to create categories for "Manchester United", "Fish and Chips" and "Doc Martin" just type
[[Category:Manchester United]]
[[Category:Fish and Chips]]
[[Category:Doc Martin]]
You may be wondering why these three categories are not being listed as categories assigned to this page or why they are not included in the list of categories used on this site. This is because the 3 lines they are on have style "Nowiki" which means they are not checked for the category identifier and therefore the categories are ignored. This page is in the category "BEBOPS How To" and you can see this category listed on the page. By clicking on the category all the other pages that are in the same category are listed.
