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title: Configuring categories
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/categorizing-pages.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/custom-development/miscellaneous-custom-development-tasks/adding-custom-methods-to-transformations/example-displaying-categories-in-page-lists.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Categorizing is useful when you want to allow users to distinguish the pages they create in the system. For example, based on their topic. Categorizing is a different approach to sorting pages in the system from the one described in [Tags](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/tagging-pages.md).

In this chapter, you can learn how you can configure Categories so that content editors can use them on the site Specifically, you can learn about:

![Listing pages based on categories](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/configuring-categories/documents+listed+based+on+categories.png "Listing pages based on categories")

_**Listing pages based on categories**_

## Displaying categories on individual pages

You can display a list of categories a page is assigned to on the individual page. To achieve that, you need to write a [transformation method for displaying a list of categories assigned to a given page](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/custom-development/miscellaneous-custom-development-tasks/adding-custom-methods-to-transformations/example-displaying-categories-in-page-lists.md).

![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/configuring-categories/Document_Categories.png)