About Taxonomy

Taxonomy helps you categorize pieces of content within your stack to facilitate easy navigation, search, and retrieval of information. You can hierarchically organize your web properties based on your requirements, such as their purpose, target audience, or any other aspects of your business.

This systematic organization gives developers and content managers complete control over their content and helps users find relevant content more efficiently, thus improving the overall user experience.

Here are the key features of Taxonomy:

• Taxonomies arrange terms in a structured hierarchy, making it easier to categorize and navigate information.
• Help categorize and classify entries using terms, making it simple to group similar elements together.
• Enhances search efficiency by narrowing down results to relevant categories.

Some role-based advantages of Taxonomy are as follows:

• Content Managers: Significantly enhances content organization and navigation by categorizing and managing content across multiple types, making locating and maintaining specific content easier.
• Developers: Offers a structured approach to organizing content, benefiting developers by simplifying the building and maintenance of web properties that align with desired hierarchical navigation. Integration with third-party tools and APIs enhances the capability to create powerful and flexible content management solutions.
• Content Editors: Improves workflow for content management where they can intuitively navigate and categorize content due to the hierarchical structure. This improves productivity and reduces the time spent searching for specific content.

Contentstack's Taxonomy feature empowers users to effectively manage and optimize their content, providing a valuable tool for content management in more extensive enterprise settings.

To perform operations related to Taxonomy within your stack via API, refer to the following documents:

• Taxonomy collection in our Content Management API
• Taxonomy GET request and queries in our Content Delivery API