Business Web Hosting Categories

August 15th, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | Filed under Phase 3, Web Business Design, Web Business Publishing.

I have already created 4 posts, but all these are labeled ‘Uncategorized’. This is a complete waste of time. At the very least we want a catchall category that reflects the key site concept.

In this case, the key site concept is Business Web Hosting. You should change the default category to your key site concept. In WordPress, this is in Manage Categories, and my installation wizard will automatically pick this up and change it.

The description for this category in standard WordPress is blank, but my installation wizard can generate a better description:

Any aspect of business web hosting that does not fit the other categories.

All other categories should follow naturally from the site plan.

It is a good idea to list these categories on the about page. You can do this manually by editing the page, but my installation wizard can build this automatically, and even import categories direct from your site plan.

Ideally, you should add all categories now, and go back to allocate old posts.

WordPress Hosting Sub-Categories

The Category Manager allows you to create a hierarchy of categories, presumably infinite, where each category can be top level, or it can have a parent.

You, or your site designer, must decide which will make the site most accessible. In general, avoid sub-categories, unless you cannot see all the categories on the page without scrolling.

If you do choose categories, you can have problems with some themes, that may not be suitable for sub-categories. Since all templates are easily edited, this is not a major problem, but might involve more time in future, when you tweak the settings to get the best look.