WordPress gives you a way to categorize your posts. The reason you would want to do this is that it allows you (or your readers) to filter the posts to the ones they are interested in. Taking the “Nutsy and the Egg” site for example, I have categorized my posts by music and the comic names, “Nutsy and the Egg” and “Bananaman” Now, instead of having to scroll through all the posts, I have filtered them so you can read all the Bananman Comics in the same place for example, instead of scrolling down the main blog to find them all.
You can also create a hierarchy of categories, so for example I could put all the comic posts under the higher level category “comics” and the lower level category of their name.
I’ve also set up a “Featured” category which contains the latest post from each of my other categories, so if you go there you get the last music post, the last Nutsy and the Egg post, and the last Bananaman post. I’ve made that my main page.
Which raises the question of what you need divi for.
The problem with word press categories is while you can have separate menu items for each, which I already have, it isn’t really a page, and you can’t put anything but that filtered feed on it. At least they haven’t added that to the Gutenberg Block Editor yet.
Divi lets you do that. You create a Page, not a post, can put whatever else you want on the page, then add the category feed as the last item on the page.
This means if you want to have say a cooking blog, an entertainment blog, and a general discussion blog all on the same site, you can do so.
So it’s similar to subcategories you can do with your menu? I tried the other way quite awhile ago with the subcategories and it was very limiting, basically only two subs under the one category and it didn’t scroll like I liked it, subpage 3 scrolled to the side instead of down under the second. I tried it under albums, but plan on just going back to page breaks to make it easier to navigate for albums/pics.
I’ll try it out later. I can see how handy it could be for everyone even if they didn’t have more than one site. I think once more groups get started, you could have all of your groups under one heading for easy access.
Submenus, yes I wouldn’t take them past one sub level, they get too hard to use. Menus though are links for navigation, they can be implemented in other fashions such as page hierarchies. Categories are more about filtering, there is only one blog per site but it can be filtered by category. When blogs don’t contain many items it doesn’t make much difference, but when you start having a lot of entries it helps to be able to filter similar ones. The best current example I have on that is those comics, following the story on either Nutsy and the Egg or Bananaman would start getting difficult if you had to wade through all the blog entries to do it. It’s much easier if you are only looking at the one comic.
Even if you only have one subject in the blog like recipes, as you get more of them you are probably going to wish you set up categories for things like entrees, deserts, salads, etc so people don’t have to wade through them all to find the chocolate chip cookie recipe.
So far for recipes, I just made a page, then posted headings for each kind of recipe and put the recipe link under them. So they are all still on one page. I haven’t done any “extras” on it though such as adding pics or graphics, etc.
The recipes I’m posting are shared with certain friends (and of course anyone else who wants to try them) so I’m not too concerned with them being categorized in any way. I plan to delete the older ones after a month or so.