Title: Setting Categories
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Setting Categories

 *  [own_wordpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/own_wordpress/)
 * (@own_wordpress)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-categories/)
 * I am fairly new to Word Press but am working to create my new professional photography
   blog.
 * Everything is going fine, as I’ve added widget support for Sidebars. But one 
   thing I can’t figure out is how do I set Categories? The Category side bar/widget
   is added and I see it on the right side under SIDEBARS – for widgets.
 * Through out the WP Admin panel what I want to do is have a list of Photo Albums
   under the heading Category on my blog – then broken down (per categories) into
   England / Hawaii / Europe etc.
 * When I created the category it is showing UNCATEGORIZED and then when you click
   on that is is showing “Archive of the uncategorized category”.
 * How do you remove the archive part – and as well create titles / pages in the
   category section – and link everything together per categories?
 * Thank you so much.

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 *  [americasmoneycentercom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/americasmoneycentercom/)
 * (@americasmoneycentercom)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-categories/#post-774275)
 * Go back to each individual post you’ve made, scroll down, there you can add as
   many categories as you like, click the one you want each post to be in (and unclick
   the UNCATEGORIZED box where they are now). They can be in two categories if you
   want!
 * Hope that makes sense.
 * Peter
 *  Thread Starter [own_wordpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/own_wordpress/)
 * (@own_wordpress)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-categories/#post-774302)
 * Ok thanks so much Peter. Yes I have figured this out now….
    One thing though,
   is when the page is open (under the category) on the left side about the side-
   bar I get “You are now viewing the ARCHIVE of xyz category”.
 * How do I change this message?
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-categories/#post-774304)
 * assuming the message is in your sidebar, and you current theme has a file sidebar.
   php, you open that file, and remove whats causing it.
 * without looking at your theme files, no-one can tell you exactly what to remove—
   but you can find it rather easily by simply looking for “You are now viewing 
   the” inside the file.
 * It will be followed by `<?php` and **something** like `get_thecategory ?>`.
 * In other words, text, and then the wordpress responsible for discovering what
   category is being looked at.
 *  Thread Starter [own_wordpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/own_wordpress/)
 * (@own_wordpress)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-categories/#post-774306)
 * Oh wow – thank you so much Whooami for placing me in the right direction. I removed‘
   archive’ from this php tag – and it worked!
 * One thing though, is there a way to bold the category title and maybe change 
   it’s color?
 *  Thread Starter [own_wordpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/own_wordpress/)
 * (@own_wordpress)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-categories/#post-774307)
 * Another thing Whooami, I just noticed the ‘sidebar’ is now correct where it says“
   You are currently browsing the Hawaii category”
 * But in the ‘main’ page section it says “Archive for the Hawaii category”.
 * In the main section how do I remove Archive? And maybe just say “The Hawaii Category…”
 * Thanks so much…
 *  [americasmoneycentercom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/americasmoneycentercom/)
 * (@americasmoneycentercom)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-categories/#post-774420)
 * own_wordpress, glad I could help. As to your next question … I haven’t a clue,
   sorry

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-categories/#post-774420)
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