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Creating Organized Movie Categories

In this video, we dive into organizing our movie categories by creating templates for each genre. 

The tutorial walks through the process of setting up a new folder, creating files for movie genres, and configuring templates for better organization. The focus is on ensuring that our movie categories are well-organized and easily accessible. In this tutorial, we organized our movie categories by creating and configuring templates for each genre. By setting up a new folder and creating files for movie genres, we streamlined the process of managing movie categories. The video also demonstrated how to incorporate pagination for better navigation and improve SEO by adding appropriate pagination links for Google. Following these steps will make managing movie categories more efficient and enhance the overall user experience.

Summary

1. Introduction to Category Templates: We started by discussing the need to create templates for movie categories to keep things organized and manageable.
2. Setting Up Folder Structure: A new folder named "_categories" was created to hold the files for movie and game genres, focusing on the movie template in this tutorial.
3. Creating Movie Genre Template: The video demonstrated copying the movie template code, adjusting variables, and creating a specific template for movie genres.
4. Configuring Entries: The tutorial showed how to relate template entries to specific genres, such as action or crime, and adjust parameters accordingly.
5. Navigation Buttons: We learned to create navigation buttons that route correctly back to the movies page.
6. Issue Fixes: The video addressed an issue where entries were incorrectly referenced as categories, showing how to correct this by swapping out variables.
7. Pagination Implementation: Detailed steps on adding pagination to limit entries displayed per page and navigate between pages.
8. SEO Enhancements: Adding pagination links in the document head to improve SEO and help Google recognize the pagination system.
9. Inspection and Validation: We inspected the document to ensure all changes were correctly implemented and functioning as expected.
10. Next Steps: The video concluded by encouraging viewers to practice what they learned and prepare for the next module on creating a membership system.