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title: Creating global and site categories
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/categorizing-pages/creating-personal-page-categories.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).

This topic describes how you can create categories for users to assign pages into. There are two types of categories that you can create for users:

- **Global categories** - these can be used across all available sites.
- **Site-specific categories** - these can be used only on the site on which you created them.

> **Info:** A third type of categories—personal categories—serve individual users for categorizing pages across multiple sites. Users can [create personal categories](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/categorizing-pages/creating-personal-page-categories.md) in the **My profile** application.

### To create a global or site category

1. Open the **Categories** application.
2. (Optional) If you want to create the new category as a subcategory, click on an existing category in the panel to the left.\
   **Note** that you cannot create a global categories under a site categories.

   ![Selecting a site category](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/creating-global-and-site-categories/selecting_category.png "Selecting a site category")
3. Click **New category** ().
4. (Optional) Unless you are creating the category under an existing _Site category_ category, you can choose whether you want your category to be a _Site category_ or a _Global category_.
5. Fill in the details of the new category.

   ![Creating a new category under a site category](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/creating-global-and-site-categories/creating_new_category.png "Creating a new category under a site category")
6. Click **Save**.

The system creates the new category.