Set up the ways your site groups content

Steps

1. In your site's admin, open "Site", then "Taxonomies". The screen, "How this site groups its content", lists Categories, Tags and any groupings of your own, each with what it "Applies to", its values, its "Shape" and its "Catalog axis".
2. Choose "New taxonomy". Give it a plural name, for example Tone, and its singular word.
3. Choose its "Shape": "Flat", where every value is a peer, or "Nested", where a value may sit under another.
4. Choose the kinds of content it applies to, and approve the card.
5. Open the taxonomy and add its values. The button uses the taxonomy's singular word, for example "Add a Tone".
6. Shape the list: "Rename" a value, describe it, reorder it with "Move up" and "Move down", place it under another value, or remove it.

Good to know

• A taxonomy's key is fixed once it is created; its name can change later.
• Changing a taxonomy's shape moves nothing already filed under it.
• "Catalog axis" says whether personalization can use the grouping: its values can become the interests the content catalog works with. See "Rebuild the content catalog".
• Categories and Tags live here. EmDash's own menu no longer lists them on a Praxis site.
• When a WordPress site is moved to Praxis, its categories, tags and custom taxonomies arrive here as native taxonomies.

In a sentence

Ask the copilot "Create a Recipes category". It shows you the change and waits for your approval.