Smarter Content Categorisation: Get It Right, Every Time

We've made it easier to keep your content organised and searchable. Publive now alerts you when a Content Type hasn't been mapped to a category — so nothing slips through untagged.

What's New

When a piece of content is published or scheduled, Publive checks whether its Content Type has been mapped to a category. If it hasn't, your editors will see a clear prompt in the workflow — right at the point of publishing.

This is a suggestion, not a blocker. Your editors can dismiss the prompt and continue publishing as normal. The warning is simply there to help your team catch gaps early, before they affect how content surfaces on your site.

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We've Already Mapped Your Categories 

To make this transition seamless, we've automatically mapped categories for most Content Types based on your actual usage patterns. If more than 80% of content under a particular Content Type was tagged with a specific category, we've set that as its default mapping.

For Content Types where usage was more varied, we've assigned 'Other' as the default — so nothing is left unmapped and your editors won't see unexpected warnings on day one.

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What You Need to Do

For most publishers: nothing. Your mappings are already in place.

If you'd like to review or refine them — for example, if a Content Type has been mapped to 'Other' and you'd prefer something more specific — head to your Category Settings and update the mapping.

A few things to note:

• Categories now have a required Content Type field. If a category is used across multiple Content Types, assign 'Other' — no warning will be shown.
  
  

  

• The warning applies to both primary and additional categories.
  

  

• Content Types already mapped to 'Other' will never trigger a warning.
  
  

Why It Matters

Categories are the backbone of how your content is organised and discovered — both for your editorial team and your readers.

On the reader side, categories determine how content surfaces across your site: listing pages, section feeds, filters, and recommendation widgets all rely on accurate category mappings to surface the right content to the right audience. A piece of content without a mapped category can silently fall out of these surfaces — it publishes successfully but doesn't appear where it should.

On the editorial side, categories affect how your team navigates and manages content at scale. Inconsistent categorisation makes it harder to track what's been published under which section, run accurate content audits, and maintain a clean site taxonomy over time.

For publishers using Publive's content scoring and rules engine, category mappings are also a dependency — rules that trigger based on category won't apply to content that isn't mapped correctly.

Getting this right at the point of publishing — rather than fixing it retroactively — saves meaningful time and prevents gaps that are easy to miss but hard to trace back.