# Genres

> Genres classify your movies and TV shows, such as Action, Drama or Comedy. This page explains how genres are imported, how to feature a genre and give it an icon, and how to set their address.

Source: https://doothemes.com/docs/dbmovies/taxonomies/genres

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## Overview

Genres classify your movies and TV shows: Action, Drama, Comedy, Science Fiction and so on. Movies and TV shows share the same genres, so a genre page lists both.

You find **Genres** in the **Movies** and **TV Shows** menus.

## How genres are imported

When you import a title, Dbmovies adds its genres from TMDb, if **Genres** is checked in **Dbmovies › Settings › Data Importer › Initial settings › Taxonomies**.

- **Language:** genre names come in the language of your site.
- **Movies and TV shows share the list.** TMDb uses some combined genres for TV shows, and Dbmovies splits them so that both share one list:
  - **Action & Adventure** becomes **Action** and **Adventure**;
  - **Sci-Fi & Fantasy** becomes **Science Fiction** and **Fantasy**;
  - **War & Politics** becomes **War**.
- **Reused:** a genre that already exists on your site is reused, never duplicated.

## Editing a genre

Open a genre to change its name, slug and description, like any WordPress category. Genres can also have parent genres, so you can create subgenres by hand. Dbmovies adds two fields:

- **Featured**: highlights the genre. Your theme can use it to show your main genres first. We recommend featuring your most popular ones.
- **Icon class**: a CSS class for the icon of the genre, if your theme shows icons.

![Editing a genre, with the Featured and Icon class fields](https://cdn.wupdater.com/dbmovies/docs/637a44332b922f25.webp)

## Permalink

Every genre has its own page. You choose the word before its name in **Settings › Permalinks**, section **Dbmovies: Taxonomies**, field **Taxonomy: Genres**. The default is `genre`:

```permalink
https://your-website.com/genre/science-fiction/
```

Changing the word changes the address of every genre page. Choose it before you open your site.