User blog:Dudeguy WC/How to add categories in the visual editor

For those of you who use the visual editor (aka the editor that just sort of "pops" on top of the page, making you able to see what your edits look like better), you may find there is no option to add categories. The bottom of the page doesn't have them (which is likely an error), and there's no side bar or option in the top bar like in the classic editor.

The solution for a while was to just add them after you made the page. However, this causes duplicate edits on accident. The real way to add categories is the same as adding links in source mode.

If you don't know how, you basically surround the link with two square brackets on each side (left and right, respectively). To add categories, you just have "Category:CATEGORYNAME" in the brackets. This will add the category to that page.

To have a category link but not mark the page with it, simply add a colon in front of "Category." This will give you ":Category:CATEGORYNAME" in the brackets.

Hopefully we will start to see less duplicate edits and pages without categories.