The Benefits of Taxonomies

Categorize your content by subject matter, product, service, or any other kind of grouping.

Find topics by taxonomy label instead of searching in the Content Manager, see Search with Taxonomy Tags.

Apply filtering instead of using element attributes and values, see Taxonomy Filters.

Add class names to HTML outputs, which you can then style with CSS, see Use Taxonomies as HTML Classes.

Create a navigation bar at the top of HTML5 Help Center outputs. The bar can contain external links to other relevant websites, see Top-Navigation for Help Centers.

Create Applicability Panels for Topic Categories to give extra context about when the content applies. In Paligo help, we use them to show when the content only applies to certain price plans.

Create HTML Meta Tags for Individual Topics, for use with other systems such as Algolia, Google Analytics, and Zoomin.

Use taxonomies for faceted search with third-party search systems such as Algolia and Coveo.

Create labels in Zendesk, see Taxonomies as Labels in Zendesk.