Tags<\/strong> can be created and added to a post by any site member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. You can add a category to your post by creating a new post or editing an existing post. You\u2019ll find categories in the\u00a0Document settings<\/strong>\u00a0sidebar panel. Be sure you\u2019re viewing the Document rather than Block tab, and if you don\u2019t see the settings sidebar, click the\u00a0gear icon<\/strong>\u00a0at the top of the page, to the right of the Publish button. To add a category, check the box next to the appropriate category in the\u00a0Categories<\/strong>\u00a0section.\u00a0 You can also add categories here, by clicking\u00a0Add New Category<\/strong>\u00a0at the bottom of the Categories section. When you\u2019re finished with the post, click\u00a0Publish<\/strong>, and the category will be assigned to your post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. To edit a post category, edit the post, make any necessary changes to the category, and click Publish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. You can find tags in the\u00a0Document settings<\/strong>\u00a0sidebar panel. Be sure you\u2019re viewing the Document rather than Block tab, and if you don\u2019t see the settings sidebar, click the\u00a0gear icon<\/strong>\u00a0at the top of the page, to the right of the Publish button. To add tags, type in the tag or tags of your choosing into the text box in the\u00a0Tags<\/strong>\u00a0section,\u00a0and press the\u00a0enter or return key<\/strong>.\u00a0After you publish the post, the tags will be added to your post.\u00a0 If you would like to remove an assigned tag, click the \u201cX\u201d that appears next to the tag, or use your backspace or delete key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n This article is adapted from\u00a0City Tech OpenLab Help<\/a>, under a\u00a0CC BY-NC-SA license<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Categories and tags (for authors) Categories and tags are keywords or phrases that are added to posts to help to organize information on a site. Categories are usually more broad, like the table of contents of a book, and tags are more narrow, like a book\u2019s index. Categories can only be created by a site admin, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress-basics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Categories<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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