Velo: Wix Blog "Categories" Collection Fields

Note: Before continuing, make sure you've read Working with Wix App Collections.

This document describes the permissions and fields in your Categories collection. 

Permissions

The Categories collection has the following permissions:

  • Read: Anyone 
  • Create: None
  • Update: None
  • Delete: None

You cannot change the Categories collection permissions. 

Fields

The field name is listed as the heading of each section, with the field ID listed in parentheses, like this: Name (name). The fields appear in this document in the order in which they appear in your collection by default.

ID (_id)

Description: The ID of the blog category. This is a system field and is hidden by default.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne

Read-only: Yes

Label (label)

Description: The name of the category as it appears in the Blog menu. 

Type: Text 

Can connect to data: Yes 

Can use in dynamic page URL: Yes

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne, contains, startsWith, hasSome 

Read-only: Yes

Post Count (postCount)

Description: The number of posts in the category.

Type: Number

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne, lt, lte, gt, gte

Read-only: Yes

Posts (posts)

Description: A list of posts in this category, referenced from the Blog/Posts collection.

Type: Multiple-item reference

Can connect to data: No

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: Yes

Read-only: Yes

Language (language)

Description: The category language.

Type: Language

Can connect to data: No

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: Yes

Read-only: Yes

Translation ID (translationId)

Description: ID of the category's translations. 

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: Yes

Read-only: Yes

Category Page Slug (categoryPageSlug)

Description: The slug of the category page on your published site.

Type: URL

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: No

Read-only: Yes

Category Page URL (categoryPageUrl)

Description: The URL of the category page on your published site.

Type: URL

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: No

Read-only: Yes

Cover Image (coverImage)

Description: Category cover image.

Type: Image

Can connect to data: No

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: No

Read-only: Yes

Description (description)

Description: Category description.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: No

Read-only: Yes

Slug (slug)

Description: Slug of the category to retrieve.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: Yes

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: No

Read-only: Yes

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