Organise advice into useful topics

1. Name one useful topic

Open Posts → Categories. In Name, type Getting ready. In Slug, type getting-ready. Leave Parent Category as None and leave Description empty for this small exercise. A category is a broad topic for related posts. The name is what readers see; the slug is the short part used in its address. We do not need many labels for one advice post.

2. Add the category once

Choose Add Category. Find Getting ready in the list and check its slug. At this point Count is 0: creating the category has not put our post into it. If the category already exists on your practice copy, use that row instead of adding another.

3. Assign the existing advice post

Open Posts → All Posts, then open Before your first garden visit. In the Post settings, open Categories. Select Getting ready. For this post, clear Uncategorized because the new topic now describes it. This changes the post’s selection; it does not delete the Uncategorized category or any post. Keep the title and advice text as they are.

4. Add one more specific tag

Open Tags in the Post settings. In Add Tag, type first-visit and press Enter to confirm it. Check that it appears as a tag item, not just words waiting in the input field. This tag is more specific than Getting ready. Use a tag when it will connect useful related advice, not to repeat every word in a post.

5. Save and check the same post

Choose Save and wait for the save to finish. Reload the editor. Open Categories and Tags again if they are closed. Check that Getting ready is selected, Uncategorized is not selected, and first-visit is still a confirmed tag. The post was already published on our local practice copy, so this saves changes to that same post; it does not create a new post.

6. Check All Posts

Return to Posts → All Posts. Find Before your first garden visit. Check the Categories and Tags columns: they should show Getting ready and first-visit. The post’s title and published status should still be there. Do not use a new post to repair a missing label; reopen the existing one and check its settings.

7. Open the topic as a visitor

Return to Posts → Categories. Move to the Getting ready row and use its View link. Open that normal link in a separate signed-out browser window. Check that the category page names Getting ready and lists Before your first garden visit. Use the link from your own site; the example’s address path is /category/getting-ready/. There should be no editing bar in this visitor window.

8. Follow the link to the correct advice

In the category page, choose Before your first garden visit. Read the main title and both original advice sentences. The topic is useful only if it takes a reader to the right post. We now have an article and a simple way to group it with future preparation advice.

Practise

Find Getting ready in Categories and check that it contains the existing advice post. Open its View link while signed out, then follow the post title and read the advice. Explain why a category and a tag have different jobs.

Check your result

The original published advice post has Getting ready as its category and first-visit as its tag. There is one Getting ready category with slug getting-ready. Its signed-out archive lists the correct post and the post link opens the original advice. Home, About and the policy draft remain unchanged.

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