Drupal Taxonomy Tutorial

Posted by: Amit Nazare on: April 10, 2009

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Drupal is one of the best and Award winning CMS, and one of its best feature is taxonomy.

New users to Drupal can find it bit difficult to understand this feature at first, which even I found it to be difficult for me at first.

Taxonomies are nothing but which allows you classify content into categories and subcategories. Drupal taxonomy is made up of vocabularies and terms. A vocabulary is a set of terms and terms are just another word for categories.

To look more into the Taxonomy, first log into the administrative block of your site. Then click on the Administrative link on the left menu. Find for the taxonomy(which comes under ( Content Management ) link click on that.

Let’s build the taxonomy for a news site as an example. First click on the Add vocabulary tab. Fill all the details into the boxes that is the Vocabulary name, some description, types and hierarchy and save the settings.

The vocabulary has been created, but there are no terms categories in it yet. Click on the Add terms link. Enter the term name, description select the parent and then save the settings. Continue the same procedure for those many terms and vocabularies you need.

For Example this could be the structure:

News [this is the name of your vocabulary]

• Business
  • Markets
  • Commodities
  • Mutual Funds
• Cricket
  • Latest
  • Live Cricket
  • Technology

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