Categories and tags allow you to manage and catalog the different posts you create on your WordPress website.
This is the video. Below it are the written steps.
How to get to categories
To get to categories, go over to the navigation menu, hover over post, and then click on categories.
Already a category made
It should take you to a page that looks similar to this. As you can see there is already a category named “Uncategorized” made. If no category is specified for a post then the post is automatically placed here.
Create a new category
On this page you can create a new category. For this example, I’m going to create a News category. Put in the name of your new category. Give it a slug. If you want it have a parent you can but this is optional. And lastly, write a description if you want. Once you have done that click “Add New Category”.
How do you add a post to a category?
You have now created a new category. But how do you add a post to a category? What you are going to want to do is go over to the navigation menu and click on all post.
Click on the post that you want to change the category of.
On this page you can see what category a post is part of. To change that click on a post that you want to change the category of.
Click on the category that you want this post to be a part of.
It should take you to a page that looks similar to this. What you are going to want to do is look over at the right-side menu and scroll down until you see categories. Click on the category that you want this post to be a part of.
Side note: you can add a new category from here. It’s located in the category section. Just click Add New Category, fill out the info that it asks, and then click Add New Category button.
click the update button
Once you have done that click the update button and now this post will be part of whatever category you set it to.
Tags
Tags are used to group related post together.
Tags are very similar and are made the same way.
To get to the tag menu go over to the navigation menu, hover over post and then click on tags.
It should take you to a page that looks like this. From here put in the information that it ask of you. Once you have done that click Add New Tag. You have now created a new tag.
How do you add a tag to a post?
So how do you add a tag to a post? First what you do is click on all post.
From this page click on the post that you want to add a tag to.
Click Add
Now on this page look over at the right-side menu and scroll down until you see tags. Type in the tag what you want to be associated with this post and then click Add.
Side Note: you can also create new tags here. Just type in the word that you want to use as a tag and click add.
Once you have done all that hit the update button and now the post has been tagged.