Categories are the primary way to organize your pretty links into meaningful groups. They’re hierarchical — meaning categories can have sub-categories — so you can mirror your real-world structure as deeply as you need to.
Categories are available at the Beginner tier and up.
Creating Categories
Aller à Dashboard > Pretty Links > Categories.
You’ll see a list of existing categories alongside a form to create a new one. To add a category:
- Enter a Nom (what you’ll see in dropdowns and lists).
- (Optional) Set a Parent if this category should sit underneath another one.
- (Optional) Add a Description so you’ll remember what the category is for.
- Cliquez sur Ajouter une catégorie.
The new category appears immediately in the list, ready to be assigned to links.
Hierarchy
Categories can be nested. For example:
- Affiliés
- Hosting affiliates
- Email-tool affiliates
- Course affiliates
- Liens internes
- Resource downloads
- Login redirects
- Campagnes
- Q1 2026
- Newsletter
- Médias sociaux
- Q2 2026
- Webinar series
- Q1 2026
There’s no hard limit on depth, but two or three levels is usually plenty. Deeper hierarchies become hard to navigate.
Assigning Categories to Links
Two ways:
- Per-link — When creating or editing a link, pick one or more categories from the Catégories picker in the Organization panel. You can also create a new category right from the link editor without leaving the page.
- Bulk — From the Pretty Links list, tick the boxes next to links you want to recategorize, choose Add categories (or Remove categories) from the bulk-actions dropdown, pick the categories, and click Apply.
A link can belong to multiple categories — categories are not a strict one-to-one bucket. In practice, most sites pick a single primary category per link and use tags for cross-cutting topics, but the data model doesn’t restrict you.
Link Counts
Each category in the Catégories screen shows a count of how many links it contains. This is handy for spotting:
- Categories you created and never used (count = 0);
- Categories that have grown unwieldy and might benefit from being split;
- Categories that match an organic theme in your link collection.
The count is the number of links directly assigned to that exact category — links in sub-categories are not rolled up into the parent’s total.
Filtering the Links List by Category
The Pretty Links list has a category filter at the top. Pick a category from the dropdown to narrow the list to just that category’s links.
You can combine the category filter with other filters (search, redirect type, status) to drill into very specific subsets — for example, “all 302 redirects in the Affiliates category that I’ve created this month.”
Editing and Deleting Categories
From the Catégories screen, hover any category and click Editer to change its name, parent, or description.
To delete a category, click Delete under its name. Links that were in that category are not deleted; they lose that category assignment (any other categories or tags they had are kept). You can re-assign them afterward.
Deleting a parent category does pas delete its sub-categories, but it also doesn’t auto-reparent them — the children are left in place with a now-missing parent reference. The Categories screen will show them as orphans; pick a new parent (or set them to “no parent”) to clean up.
Descriptions
Use category descriptions to document what the category is for and any conventions. Future-you (or a teammate) will appreciate “Affiliate links for tools we use ourselves — never link out to anything we don’t recommend” more than the bare name Affiliés.
Descriptions appear in the Categories screen but are not shown to visitors who click your links.
Conseils
- Commencez petit. Three to five top-level categories is plenty for most sites. Add more only when you feel the need;
- Soyez cohérent. Pick a naming style (Title Case, lowercase, etc.) and stick with it;
- Use the description field. A one-sentence description on each category prevents confusion six months later;
- Combine with tags for cross-cutting concerns. Don’t try to capture everything with categories alone;
- Reorganize when it hurts. If you find yourself unable to remember which category a link is in, that’s a sign your structure has drifted. Spend an hour cleaning up.