Category Types

Movable Type is set up so that you can create as many categories as you want. You then can assign as many of those categories as you would like (or assign no categories) to a given entry.

Two types of categories are available: primary and secondary.

A primary category can be considered the “parent” category. It's the category that manages the way the category is dealt with in terms of display and archiving. The primary category will come first in any display. If you're keeping a blog about writing, and your primary interest is fiction, you could make fiction your primary category.

A secondary category is any category that you assign after the primary category. Entries into secondary categories can be archived under all parent and ...

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