Managing Quick Blogcast Categories
Quick Blogcast Categories help visitors to your site quickly find specific entries, topics of interest, or everything you've posted about a particular topic. Categories are also used to determine how your podcast is listed in the iTunes® music store. Although categories are helpful, they are optional. You can assign more than one category to an entry and can change or remove a selected category at any time.
The Manage Categories page, in your Quick Blogcast account, lists all categories used in the selected blogcast site. From this page, you can view categories, view entries associated with a category, create a new category, combine categories, delete categories, and update category descriptions.
You can add new categories on the Manage Categories page, or you can add a new category as you are creating a new entry.
NOTE: You cannot use an ampersand (&) in your category name, but you can use a period (.).
To Create a New Category from the Manage Categories Page
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Blogcast.
- Click Manage Account next to the blog account you want to modify.
- From the Manage Blog menu, select Categories.
- Under Add New Category, enter a new category name and description.
- Click Save Category .
The new category is added to the Category list.
To Create a New Category When Creating an Entry
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Blogcast.
- Click Manage Account next to the blog account you want to modify.
- From the Manage Entries page, select New Entry.
- From the expandable menu on the left, select Categories.
- Enter the name of your new category.
- Click Add.
The new category is added to the Category Name list.
To Delete Categories
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Blogcast.
- Click Manage Account next to the blog account you want to modify.
- From the Manage Blog menu, select Categories.
- In the Category List, perform one of the following actions to delete categories:
- Select the categories you want to delete, and then from the Select Action menu, select Delete Categories.
- Click the Delete button next to the categories you want to delete.
A notification that the selected category was deleted displays above the Category list.
To Combine Categories
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Blogcast.
- Click Manage Account next to the blog account you want to modify.
- From the Manage Blog menu, select Categories.
- In the Category List, select the categories you want to combine.
- From the Select Action menu, select Combine Categories, and then click Apply. The Category Name dialog displays.
- Enter a name for the new category, which will combine the selected categories, and then click Add.
Note: When you combine categories you are actually creating a new category that contains the categories you have selected.
To View Your Category List
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Blogcast.
- Click Manage Account next to the blog account you want to modify.
- From the Manage Blog menu, select Categories.
In the Category list, you can select how many categories you want to display on each page. Select to display 10, 20, 50, or 100 listings per page. If there is more than one page, you can select a different page from the page number menu.
To View the Entries Associated with a Category
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Blogcast.
- Click Manage Account next to the blog account you want to modify.
- From the Manage Blog menu, select Categories.
- Click the Category name to open the Manage Entries page. The Entries list is automatically sorted to display the entries associated with the selected category.