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Can a post have multiple categories?
It’s possible that having your post in multiple categories could cause some SEO issues due to duplicate content. If you do use multiple categories, then try to avoid putting one post into two or more main (parent) categories. Each post should fit within one main category.
How many subject categories for your posts does WordPress allow by default?
You can select multiple categories for a single post to show in. You should not add more than five to 15 categories and tags to a post.
Can a custom post be displayed on the default category page?
By default, the category pages on your WordPress site will only display the default ‘Posts’ post type. To display your custom post types on the same category page as your default posts, you need to add this code into your theme’s functions.php or a site-specific plugin.
How to categorize a post in WordPress by category?
By default in WordPress, you can categorize your post. This feature is useful to find out in which category your posts belongs to. In WordPress, when a user clicks on one of the categories they will redirect to post listing page for that specific category. WordPress uses the following template files for posts listing of a category.
How to add categories to custom post type?
Manually Adding Categories to a Custom Post Type. If you created your custom post type by adding the code in your theme’s functions.php file or a site-specific plugin, then you will have to modify the code to add category as supported taxonomy. All you need to do is add this line in the arguments for your CPT. ‘taxonomies’ => array( ‘category’ ),
Which is the default post type in WordPress?
Here is a full example of code where we have created a custom post type called ‘Movies’ with support for built-in categories. By default, the category pages on your WordPress site will only display the default ‘Posts’ post type.