Categories group your guides for filtering and discovery. Every guide can be tagged with one or more categories, and categories support a parent/child hierarchy so you can nest subcategories under broader topics.
Creating and editing categories
Open Admin → Categories. Click "New category" to add one. Each category has a name and an optional parent (leave blank for a top-level category). Save, and the category is immediately available when editing guides.
To delete a category, open it and click delete. Guides previously tagged with that category lose the tag but otherwise remain untouched.
How categories show up in your guides
In the admin guide list, categories appear as filter chips at the top. Click a chip to narrow the list to guides tagged with that category. The "+ Add Category" picker on each guide editor lets you assign one or more.
On your public resource center, categories appear as filter chips above the guide grid. Clicking a chip filters the grid to matching guides. Each category also becomes a URL parameter (e.g., ?category=carnival-cruise-line) which is what the sitemap exposes for indexing.
Hierarchy and subcategories
A category can have a parent, which makes it a subcategory of that parent. Hierarchy is one level deep in practice — Europe → Germany → Berlin works because each level has its own row, but there's no UI distinction between a "category" and a "subcategory."
In the public resource center, the chip layout doesn't differentiate parent from child — every category that has at least one guide attached gets its own chip.
What categories do not do
There is no category landing page. Clicking a category filters the resource center index; it doesn't take you to a dedicated page with its own description or hero.
The category description field is stored in the database but is not rendered on any public-facing page.
Subcategory nesting is data-only. The public chip layout doesn't visually group children under their parent.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a guide be in multiple categories?
Yes. Assign as many as makes sense — each one becomes a separate filter chip the guide is reachable from.
Do categories affect SEO?
Each category that has at least one guide gets its own URL in your sitemap. That gives Google another path to discover your guides. Beyond that, categories don't directly affect ranking.
Why doesn't my category description show up anywhere?
Because there's no public category page in the current build. The description column is reserved for that feature; for now, treat it as internal-only notes.
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