Categories

Use Categories to group related News, Events, and FAQs so sections on your site can pull the right content.

What Categories controls

Categories are shared across three content areas:

That shared setup makes categories useful when you want to:

Go to Categories in the Club Management Portal.
Click Create Category, or open an existing category to edit it.
Enter the Name.
Review the generated Slug.
Decide whether Active should be on.
Save the category.
If needed, return to your content records and assign the category where it should be used.

Use Name for the label your team will choose when tagging content.

Helpful detail:

since categories are shared across News, Events, and FAQs, choose names that will still make sense in more than one place when possible

Use Slug as the system-friendly version of the category name.

Helpful detail:

the slug is generated from Name, so it is usually best to set the name clearly before the category starts being used widely

Use Active to show whether this category is still part of your current setup.

Practical tip:

if you are retiring a category, turning off Active is often a safer first cleanup step than deleting it immediately

On the categories list, Clubistry shows counts for:

These counts help you quickly see where a category is currently in use.

Use categories on News records when you want teaser sections to pull only certain kinds of news.

Use categories on Events records when you want event teaser sections to show only selected types of events.

Use categories on FAQs when you want an FAQ section on a page to show only certain topics.

Helpful detail:

categories matter most when a page section is filtering content, so remember to tag the content record itself as well as configure the section

These habits usually make categories easier to manage over time:

keep names short and easy to recognize
avoid creating multiple categories that mean almost the same thing
review the Events, News, and Faqs counts before cleaning up old categories
use a smaller shared set of categories unless you have a clear reason to split them further
after changing category assignments, review the page sections that depend on those categories

Check these items first:

the category is assigned to the News, Event, or FAQ record you expect
the content record itself is active or otherwise eligible to display
the page section is set to use the category you expect
the page containing the section is active and viewable by the right audience