Organising Posts with Categories

Categories are how readers navigate your blog. In Nano CMS each post belongs to one category, chosen from the dropdown in the editor.

Two layers

1. Membership - the category on each post. This is what actually groups posts and builds the category archive page at /blog/<category>/.
2. Category records - optional metadata you create under Categories in the admin. A record adds a friendly display name, a description, a hero image, and the image's alt text, plus a sort order for the homepage.

A category works fine with no record - its name is just derived from the slug. Adding a record is what makes the homepage card look polished.

On the homepage

The homepage shows a card for each category, ordered by the sort order you set (then alphabetically). Click one and you land on that category's archive - a paginated grid of its posts.

Tip: create your categories before writing posts, so they're ready to pick in the editor's dropdown.