Article
Blog categories and authors
Organise your blog with categories and set up the authors you credit on pages and posts.
Categories group your blog posts into topics and decide which website's blog each post appears on. Authors are the people you credit on your pages and posts. You manage both under Strengthen → Content: categories in Categories and people in Authors.
Before you start
- You need permission to view and create categories or authors. Ask a subscription administrator if you can't see these pages. See Users, teams, groups and permissions.
- Every page and post needs an author, and every post needs at least one category, so it's worth creating these before you start writing.
How categories are organised
Categories are shown as a tree. Each website's blog starts from a root category, which an administrator links to the website as its Root Blog Category in Account → Settings → Content. The categories you create beneath that root category make up the website's blog. See Content settings.
A category's web address sits under your blog path. For example, a category with the URL "news" might live at /blog/news. Root categories don't have their own URL field.
Categories shown in red are not enabled, so visitors can't see them.
Create a category
- Step 1: Go to Strengthen → Content → Categories.
- Step 2: To add a category inside an existing one, select the parent category in the tree first.
- Step 3: Using the buttons above the tree, select Add Category to create a sub-category of the selected category, or Add Root Category to start a new top-level category.
- Step 4: Fill in the fields. The standard category template includes Name, Image, Thumbnail Image, Colour, Short Description and Body Text on the General tab, and URL, Meta Title and Meta Description on the SEO tab.
- Step 5: Select Publish now, or open the Actions menu (the button next to it) to Save Draft, Schedule or Schedule with revert.
Categories use the same draft, scheduling and Preview options as pages, and have a Comments tab once saved. See Creating and editing pages.
A new root category isn't part of any website's blog until an administrator chooses it as that website's Root Blog Category.
Manage existing categories
- Select a category in the tree to edit it.
- Right-click a category to Preview Page, Clear Frontend Cache, Enable or Disable it, or Delete it. Which options you see depends on the category and your permissions.
- If you change the URL of a category, Structurell creates a permanent redirect from the old address and updates links to it in your other content, so existing links keep working. See Redirects.
Before you delete a category, move any posts you want to keep into another category. A post needs at least one category to appear in a blog.
Add an author
- Step 1: Go to Strengthen → Content → Authors and select New.
- Step 2: If your organisation has more than one author template, choose one.
- Step 3: On the General tab, enter the author's Name and add an Image, Thumbnail Image and Description.
- Step 4: On the SEO tab, enter a URL for the author.
- Step 5: Select Save to return to the list, or open the Actions menu and choose Save and Continue to keep editing.
The author now appears in the Author field on the SEO tab of pages and posts. Authors don't have drafts or scheduling: changes take effect when you save.
Manage authors
The Authors list shows all your authors. Select an author to edit them. Depending on your permissions, the actions menu on each row also lets you Enable, Disable or Delete an author.
Before you delete an author, check whether any pages or posts still credit them, and choose a different author for that content first.