Add a Categories Section to a Blogger Blog

Categories is a very important section of any blog, because with the help of categories people can easily find what they are looking for. As a disadvantage Blogger blogspot blog doesn’t have category section in it, its not a big deal because it does have labels in that. So we would manually create category section in blogger from existing labels. Now how to create categories using these labels so there are different procedures to make categories, we will explain all of them.

The first and the easy way to create categories is to simply rename the title of the labels as categories. But it wouldn’t work because there are so many labels you choose for an article. So to choose the category you must go to Selected Labels in label widget and choose the one’s that you want to show in category. If you see at the header you may notice that how i have created the major categories from the labels so visitors can easily find what they are looking for.

How to choose a proper word to be shown in categories section from an article that is already having too many labels is that ..


1. Go to YourBlogAddress (Ex. http://doyouknow1247.blogspot.in/) > Click On Design > Layout > Click On Add Gadget > than in basic gadgets find "Labels" and click on it.

2. Change the title from labels to categories, and choose Selected Labels, edit it and select the labels which you want to show as categories as shown below.

Now Save it and you have done..!!!


The other way to add categories section to a blogger is as follows.

1. In this method you have to decide first how you want to group your articles, according to the labels applied, and what group heading you want to give to each grouping of articles.

2. Now to make the first category navigate to the individual page of the label you wish to use, by clicking on the label it has. After the page is opened for that label, Copy the URL address of this page. For example the URL address of the label of PC Games on my Site is:


http://doyouknow1247.blogspot.in/search/label/Pc%20Games 

but, let me tell you important thing that if you got a label that have two words in it like 'PC games', or 'Tips And Tricks', then use the %20 sign in between the two words like Pc%20Games, or Tips%20And%20Tricks.

3. From Blogger Dashboard go to Design > Page Elements > Add a Gadget > Link List.

4. In the Configure Link List dialog box, paste the link of the label you've copied from the address bar to New Site URL.

 

5. Give whatever name you want to be shown as your category is about what, in New Site Name, as I've given PC Games. Make the title as Categories any on other title you want to give.

6. After completing the settings click on Add Link to add the link to your categories, and click on Save.

7. For every article you with to put into the Categories Section copy the link of that label and add it to the Configure Link List. You can use the up and down arrows of each link to shuffle them around for desired order.

Have a God Day...!!!