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Authors & categories

Posts get structure from two things: who wrote it (author) and what it’s about (categories). Both come with their own public landing pages.

  • Blog panel — the Authors and Categories tabs list what exists, each with a New button.
  • Inline, while editing a post — the author dropdown and the category picker in post settings both have a create-new option, so you never have to leave the post.
  • Chat“add an author named Sarah Chen”, “add a category called Tutorials”.

An author has:

FieldUsed where
NameThe byline on every post, and the author page heading
AvatarNext to the byline and on the author page
BioOn the author page (/blog/author/sarah-chen)
Social linksX/Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub, Instagram, website, email — shown as icons in the byline and on the author page

The byline on a post links to the author’s page, which lists all their posts.

A category has:

FieldUsed where
NameThe pill on post cards and post pages
DescriptionOn the category page (/blog/category/tech)
ColorThe pill/accent color
Cover imageOptional hero on the category page

Categories power two things for readers: the filter on your blog home (click a pill — the list narrows without a page change) and the category landing pages.