---
title: "How to create a new Contacts Category in Joomla 3.1"
description: "In this Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we are going to show you how to create a new Category within the Contacts module. Log into your Joomla 3.0 admin dashboard In the top menu, click Components, hover over..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/new-category/
date: 2012-11-25
modified: 2021-11-19
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 3"]
tags: ["Joomla v3"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to create a new Contacts Category in Joomla 3.1

In this Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we are going to show you how to create a new Category within the Contacts module.

1. [Log into your Joomla 3.0 admin dashboard](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard/)
2. In the top menu, click **Components**, hover over **Contacts**, and then click **Categories**
3. In the top left of the page, click **New**
4. **Fill out the details** on the new Category page **and then click Save** in the top left of the page. In our testing, we are going to create categories for both *teachers* and *students*, starting with teachers. There are many details you can fill in for this new Contacts Category. To keep it simple, we entered **Teachers** as the *Title*.****