Applies to: Lite & Pro

Manage Categories

For: Teachers & Administrators

Create and organize the subject areas your courses belong to. Categories help students browse and filter the course catalog, and they let you group related courses together.

A category is a label you attach to a course — for example “Beekeeping,” “Cooking,” or “Wellness.” You can keep categories flat (all at the top level) or nest them under a parent category to build a simple hierarchy.

Before you start

• You are logged in as a Teacher or Administrator.
• You are on the Manage Categories screen. From the Voltora Academy menu in your WordPress dashboard, choose Categories.

Add a category

1. Scroll to the Add New Category section.
2. In the Category Name field, type the name students will see (for example, “Beekeeping”).
3. Optional — make it a sub-category. Open the Parent Category dropdown and choose an existing category to nest this one beneath it.
4. Click Add Category. The new category appears in the list above.

Edit or delete a category

1. In the category list, find the row you want to change.
2. To rename or re-parent: update the Category Name or Parent value in that row, then click Update.
3. To remove it: click Delete next to the category. Deleting a category does not delete the courses in it — those courses simply lose that category label.

Tips & things to know

• Categories are shared across your whole academy, so a category created by one teacher is available to all.
• Most courses only need a handful of top-level categories. Start simple; you can add more later.

Pro Feature

Categories work the same way in Voltora Academy Pro. Pro adds richer course organization on the student-facing side (star ratings and category filters on the course marketplace), but creating and managing categories is unchanged.

Related articles

• Add a Course
• Edit a Course
• Manage Courses