Drupal - Create Categories

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In this chapter, we will study how to Create Categories in Drupal. Taxonomy can be considered as categories or tags. Drupal taxonomy is built up of vocabularies and terms. A vocabulary is a set of terms and terms are just another word for categories.

Following are the simple steps to create categories in Drupal.

Step 1 − Go to Structure and click Taxonomy in the category as shown in the following screen.

Step 2 − Click on Add vocabulary link.

Step 3 − Enter your new vocabulary (category) Name and Description as shown in the following screen.

Click the Save button and your category is created.

Step 4 − You will see your new category is added to the list. Further you can click add terms link to add some terms to it.

Step 5 − You can add some sub categories to it. Enter the required details and click the Save button as shown in the following screen.

Step 6 − Choose your parent category from the list and click list terms link to view your sub categories list.

Following are the details about the fields present in the preceding screen.

• Edit vocabulary − You can edit your category name and description.

• List terms − It displays your subcategory list.

• Add terms − You can add your subcategories through this link.

Step 7 − You will see the subcategories list. Here, you can edit your subcategory by clicking on the edit link as shown in the following screen.

Step 8 − Next, you can also rearrange your subcategories by dragging them as per the demand. After rearranging, click the Save button.