Taxonomies

A taxonomy is a way to group content — categories, tags, authors, languages. Each taxonomy holds terms (the individual values), and each term can be attached to any number of content records.

Open Taxonomies in the sidebar to see the overview.

The overview table

Column	Meaning
Taxonomy	Display label and the machine slug beneath it
Description	What the taxonomy is for
Content types	The content types it applies to, as chips
Terms	How many terms it has
Usages	How many content records reference any of its terms
Actions	View · Edit · Delete (icons, with tooltips)

Hover an action icon to see its name.

Adding a taxonomy

1. Click Add New.
2. Fill in:
   • Name (slug) — the machine name, e.g. categories. Lowercase, hyphens.
   • Label — what editors see, e.g. Categories.
   • Hierarchical — tick for category-style parent/child terms.
   • Description — optional, shown in the table.
   • Content types it applies to — tick every type this taxonomy belongs to.
3. Click Create taxonomy.

The new taxonomy appears in the table and in the sidebar immediately.

Editing a taxonomy

Click the pencil icon on a row. You can change the label, hierarchy, description and content types.

The name (slug) is locked while editing: existing terms and content reference it, so renaming the machine name would orphan them.

Deleting a taxonomy

Click the trash icon. The confirmation tells you exactly what will be removed — how many term definitions and how many usages.

Deleting a taxonomy:

1. removes the taxonomy itself,
2. removes all of its term definitions,
3. strips those terms from every content record that used them.

This cannot be undone.

Managing terms

Click the eye icon (or the taxonomy name) to open it.

• Add New Term — name, slug, description.
• Edit (pencil) — renamed terms are updated inside every content record that uses them, so the counts stay truthful.
• Delete (trash) — removes the term definition and strips it from the content that used it.

The table shows Name, Slug, Description, Count (how many records use the term) and actions.

How taxonomies relate to content types

Each taxonomy lists the content types it applies to. Most map one-to-one:

Taxonomy	Content type
Categories	Posts
Tags	Posts
Topics	Guides

Some are deliberately cross-type:

Taxonomy	Applies to
Post Author	Posts, Pages
Language	Posts, Pages, Events

When you create a taxonomy, choose the types it belongs to — that assignment is what tells editors where the taxonomy box should appear.