What is a Taxonomy? WordPress Taxonomies Explained

.. In the easiest smell WordPress taxonomies are just way to group related posts or other pieces of content back. For example if you head to Amazon you probably find useful that you can soon double-click to Television & Video taxonomy instead of searching from the millions of different products Amazon.. Or you can always add or edit taxonomies like permalink slugs at later date by hovering over the Posts in sidebar and selecting either Categories or Tags.. If you look at WordPress Editor screenshot below you will notice that the interface for adding categories and tags is only bit different.. With categories WordPress lists out of the categories that you've used while the interface only includes box to add tags.. But if you find yourself needing to assign many categories to almost single post that you write you will want to consider whether category system is overly narrow.. Thanks to WordPress widgets hard to display both your tags and categories on the front-end of your site.. To do that all you need to do is head to Appearance → Widgets and drag over or both the Categories and Tag Cloud widgets. While WordPress install clocks you up with two different taxonomies you're by no means limited to only using categories and tags.  Read more