# Community Categories

The CommunityRepository also provides a way to manage community categories. When communities are placed into categories, users can easily sort and filter communities based on their category, allowing for more efficient and effective community management.

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**Note**: Categories can only be created and updated from the social.plus Console.
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## Get Category

To get a particular community category, users can utilize the `getCategory` method provided by the CommunityRepository. This method accepts a `categoryId` as a parameter and returns information about the specified category.

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## Category Query

CommunityRepository also provides the `categoryQuery` method, which allows users to obtain the categories currently available on the system. This method returns a collection of categories.

To query community categories with certain criteria, the following parameters are used:

* `sortBy` allows you to filter communities based on the order that the community categories were created or based on alphabetical order, last created, and first created.
* `includeDeleted` allows you to specify if you want to include deleted community categories in your query. By passing `true` or `false` to this method, you can include or exclude deleted community categories from the results.

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