Categories (Blog, Documents, Events)

Purpose

There are three category collections — one each for Posts, Documents, and Events. They look almost identical and follow the same rules. Categories let visitors filter content on the public site and help the AEO indexer group related material.

When to use this

Set up your initial category list before publishing content.
Add a new category when you start publishing about something you've never written about.
Resist the urge to add fifty categories — two to ten per type is the sweet spot.

Key fields (all three collections)

Name — visible label (e.g. "Club News", "Competition Reports").
Slug — URL fragment. Lowercased and dash-separated.
Description — short paragraph shown at the top of the filtered index.
Icon (Event Categories only) — Lucide icon name, used in the calendar legend.
Color (Event Categories only) — hex code used in the calendar.

Common tasks

Add a blog category

Content > Blog Categories, Create New.
Name, Slug, Description.
Save.

Recolour an event category

Events > Event Categories, open one.
Change Color (or rely on Calendar Settings to override).
Save.

Merge two categories

Find every post in the donor category (filter the Posts list).
Re-tag each to the target category.
Delete the empty donor category. Don't delete it first — orphaned posts lose their category entirely.

Gotchas

Slug changes break URLs. The category index URL is /news/category/{slug}. Renaming the slug breaks every existing link.
Documents and Posts have separate category collections — you can't reuse a Document Category for a Post.
Don't over-categorise — search engines and members prefer focused taxonomies. If you have a category with one post in it, it's probably noise.
Event Categories drive calendar colours — pairing colours with category names in tooltips helps colour-blind members.