What is the difference between a category and a space?

omar omar 2 months ago Resolved

Just getting started and I want to get the mental model right. A category seems to be a grouping, and a space is where the actual posts live — is that correct?

When should I create a new category versus just another space?

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This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

Adding a small note: the same idea applies on mobile, just with a bit more attention to tap targets.

For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.

Short answer: yes, and here is the supported path.

  1. Open the relevant settings panel.
  2. Make the change there rather than editing files.
  3. Save, then reload to confirm.

Doing it this way means your change survives updates. Hand-editing files does not.

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