How to Manage category in SMF?

Categories are responsible for making or breaking the forum. If the categories are managed properly, your visitors can easily find the topics they want to read about. Categories play a very vital role in almost all internet-based businesses. For example, if an E-commerce store manages the categories poorly, the potential customers will find it hard to look for the product they want.

Similarly, If you are managing categories poorly on your forum, the visitors or users will find it hard to look for the topic they want to read and discuss. Almost all types of content management systems allow us to manage categories.

In this tutorial, I am going to show you How to manage categories in SMF based forum. So, Let’s get started.

Manage Categories in SMF

First of all, log in to your admin account and click on the Admin option given in the main navigation bar.

Then, you will see a secondary navigation bar. Find and click on the Forum -> Boards option just as highlighted in the following screenshot.

On this page, you will see a list of categories available in your SMF. If you want to add a new category, click on the Create New Category link given on the menu.

Now, Enter the order and the category name. You can also make the category collapsible if you want.

Finally, click on the Add Category button given at the bottom-right corner of the page. See the following screenshot for reference.

If you want to modify or delete a specific category, click on the category name.

If you want to modify the information, update and then click on the Modify and the category will be updated. To delete the category, simply click on the Delete Category option given in the bottom-right corner of the page.

So, this is how you can manage category in SMF. It is very important to manage categories properly for any online site. We hope this tutorial was helpful to you. If you have any more questions, please let us know in the comment section given below. We will be happy to help!