Top Categories

Top Categories is an automatic discovery block on the Crimson homepage that highlights your most-used categories (tags). It helps readers quickly jump into the topics your site publishes the most.

Crimson builds this section automatically by finding the top 4 tags with the highest number of published posts assigned to them.

Top Categories Section on Homepage

Where it appears

This section is auto-injected into the homepage flow:

• It appears after the 2nd Tag Section

There is no separate “position” setting for it—its placement is based on the tag-section index.

If you have fewer than 2 Home Tag Sections configured, you may not see Top Categories at all (because the injection point is never reached).

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What it shows

Top 4 tags (by post count)

Top Categories displays:

• at max 4 tags

• selected based on which tags have the most published posts assigned to them

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Troubleshooting

Top Categories is not showing

Check:

1. Do you have at least 2 Home Tag Sections enabled via Tag slugs to show on home?

   • Top Categories is injected after the 2nd section, so it won’t appear if you only have 0 or 1 tag section.

2. Do you have enough published posts and tags in general?

The tags shown are not the ones I want

This section is automatic and based on post count, not manual selection.

To influence what appears:

• Use your desired “category” tags more consistently

• Merge or delete unused tags

• Avoid creating too many similar tags that split your content (e.g., tech-news vs news)