In Drupal and other content management systems, taxonomy is the practice of classifying and organizing content using tags, categories, and other metadata. Taxonomy allows you to group related content together and to make it easier for users to find specific types of content on your site.
Drupal includes a powerful taxonomy system that allows you to create and manage vocabularies and terms. Vocabularies are groups of related terms, such as tags or categories, and terms are the specific labels that you use to classify content. For example, you might create a vocabulary called Tags and add terms such as news, sports, and entertainment to classify articles on your site.
You can manage taxonomy by going to the Structure section in the Drupal administration interface and clicking on the Taxonomy link. From there, you can create and manage vocabularies and terms, and you can also assign taxonomy terms to your content. This will allow you to classify and organize your content in a way that makes it easier for users to find what they are looking for.
- Log in to the Drupal admin interface as an administrator or content editor.
- Go to the Structure menu and select Taxonomy
- Click List terms for the vocabulary you wish to work with
- Click Add term button
- Give the term a Name
- (Optional) Provide a Description for the term
- Check or Uncheck Published
- Ignore Relations section
- Click Save to add more terms
- Click Save and go to list to return to the list of terms
- Log in to the Drupal admin interface as an administrator or content editor.
- Go to the Structure menu and select Taxonomy
- Click List terms for the vocabulary you wish to work with
- Sort the terms in the order you wish them to appear
- Using the arrows, drag the terms
- Click on Show row weights to sort by weight
- Click Save
- Ignore Reset to alphabetical
Articles, Facility Hours, Profiles, and Spotlights all allow Taxonomy Terms to be added as Categories for sorting of content into groups. When adding content, new Terms can be added by typing into the Category field. If the term does not already exist, it will be auto-created for your convenience. However, be aware the spelling mistakes or capitalization will create a new term so please double check the spelling before hitting Save.