It can be difficult to understand the concept of "Categories," but there is a magic clue that clearly shows how categories are set up. This clue is found in "site manager," under "themes" and "permissions." The list provided there is a list of all the existing categories within a site.
What this means is that there are different categories of pages that divide a site into managable sections. Some categories are editable by everybody, others are only editable by site members, and even others which are only editable by admins. Just to chuck even more goodies into the pot, using the theme manager, each category can have its own theme or appearance, with navigation elements (such as sidebar menus) tailored for each seperate category. For example, if you have a wiki about the history of the Napoleonic Wars, you can include a completely seperate category within that wiki about Period Uniforms/Dress. Keeping the two subjects in the same wiki is clearly preferred, but mixing all those pages up together could lead to some messy navigation issues. Seperating them by use of category solves all those problems.
Once it is decided that a category is needed within a wiki, the first thing to do is create it. But first, look in:
Site manager — Permissions
Make a note of the existing categories in the list provided (these are automatically set up at the time the wiki was created — ref. picture on upper right hand side of this page). Do not delete any of these!
Next, create a new category. For this example a category called "newcat" has been created, but a category can be named anything.
Add a page to this new category by using the "create page" in the "nav-side". Create this page by first putting in the category name, followed by : and then the page name itself , e.g.:
Newcat:page1
Now go look in Site manager — Permissions again. Notice that Newcat (or the name of the new category) is in there.
Different permissions can now be assigned to this category as necessary, as well as the theme.
To continue to add new pages to this new category using "create page", just type the category name, : and the new page name. eg
Newcat:page2
Newcat:page3
Newcat:page4
Note that any internal wiki pages that reference a page within a specific category must have the category name listed as part of the page name. For instance, "page2" is not the same page as "Newcat:page2."
Further reading:
http://community.wikidot.com/glossary:category
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-8053/using-categories
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-6269/how-to-create-a-category
Authors
An SB collaboration between
Phil Chett. Please visit his/her userPage.
Helmuti_pdorf. Please visit his/her userPage.
