Chapter 4: Categories

A category is used to group all related entries. Category name should be unique under each blog but you can have categories with the same name under different blogs. Each blog has a category named “unfiled” by default.

Creating a Category
To create a new category, select the menu item “New Category” in the “File” menu or click on the button marked “+” and choose “New Category”. A sheet like the one shown below slides down the main window.



Select Blog Name: Select the blog name from popup button. This is the blog under which the new category will be created. You can always move the category from one blog to the other using drag and drop.
Category Name: This is the name that uniquely identifies the Category in the selected blog. You can use any character in the category name except the forward slash character “/”.
Category Image: You can assign an image to each category. This image is shown next to the entry title in Blog page and Entry page. The image is also shown in the banner of the Category page.

Editing a Category
Double click the Category name in the outline view of the main window to edit it. A Category edit sheet will slide down the main window. You can edit the category attributes. Please refer to the “Adding a Category” section of this chapter for a detailed description of each of the attributes in this sheet. To change the category image drag a new image in to the image view. To remove a category image check the “Remove Image” checkbox. To change the size of the category image edit the width and height text fields.



Deleting a Category
Control-click on the Category name in the outline view of the main window and select “Delete Category” in the pop-up menu. You can also delete the Category by selecting its name and clicking the delete button in the button bar at the bottom of the main window.

Moving a Category from one Blog to another
You can drag and drop a category from one blog to the other. When you move a category from one blog to the other all the entries in the category will also be moved along with it. If there is a category with the same name in the destination blog then iBlog offers an option to merge the entries in both the categories, if you choose to cancel the merge operation then the move operation is not performed.