The WordPress Quiz Plugin offers question categories and tags for questions to organize and manage quiz content more effectively.
In this article, we will learn to create question categories and tags and add them to the questions. So, let’s begin.
Question Categories #
The purpose of usage #
First, let’s understand what the question categories are and what is the purpose of using them.
Question categories are like filters that help you organize the questions and group them based on the theme/topic. To conclude, this helps both the quiz creator and quiz taker find and filter necessary questions more easily. Also, categories help to simplify the content management for quizzes.
Creating Question Categories #
To create a question category, please follow these steps:
- Head to the Quiz Maker plugin > Question Categories page.
- In the Categories Tab, click on the Add New button.
- Write the Title for the Category.
- Write down your desired text as a Description of the category.
- Specify the Category Status (Published/Unpublished).
- Save the changes.


Adding a Question Category to the question #
Once you create a question category, you can add it to your desired question. The steps to add the question category to the question are easy to follow.
- Head to the Questions page and open your desired question/create a new question.
- Configure the settings as per your requirements and scroll down a little bit.
- Find the Question category option and choose your preferred category for the input. Note: You can choose only one category for the question.

Question Tags #
The purpose of usage #
So, we have come to the Question Tags and the purpose of using them in quizzes.
Using question tags can help you to provide more specific details about the question. For example, you can give the “Math” category and “Algebra” and “Geometry” tags to the question. Besides this, the tags can help to perform more advanced search and filtering.
Creating Question Tags #
The steps to create question tags are easy to follow.
- Go to the Quiz Maker plugin > Question Categories page.
- Head to the Tags Tab and click on the Add New button.
- Write the Title and Description for the Tag.
- With the last step, you can specify the status of the tag: Published/Unpublished.


Adding a question tag to the question #
Once you create a question tag, you can add it to the question. You can assign multiple tags to the question. Follow these steps to add the tags to the question.
- Head to the Questions page > given question > General Tab.
- Apply your desired settings to the question and scroll down a little bit.
- Find the Question Tags option and choose your desired tags from the input․

That’s all about the Question Categories and Tags. As you can see, the steps to create and add them to the questions are very easy to follow.
Check the WordPress Quiz Plugin All Question Types Explained video for more info about the question types provided by the plugin.