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Overview: Classify your content using taxonomies

Using classifications, you can organize content items, such as news, events, and images.

In Sitefinity CMS, there are two types of classifications:

  • Simple list - Simple lists group content into a specified set of categories. There is no relationship between the categories in the simple list. They are peer members of a single structure.
  • Hierarchical list - Hierarchical lists group content in a tree structure of branches and sub-branches. The relationship between a top-level entry and a lower-level entry in the hierarchy usually indicates a differentiation of the top classification by a particular attribute.

    EXAMPLE: Dogs are one tag and Cats are another. When Dogs and Cats are simple lists, all items tagged as Dogs are equal members of Dogs, and have no relationship with cats. When you have a top-level category Animals with subcategories Dogs and Cats, all cats are Cats and all dogs are Dogs, yet both are related through the common root in that they are both Animals.

IMPORTANT: Classifications are shared across different sites. If you are using multiple sites, changing a classification on one site will change the classification on every other site that uses it.

To view, create, edit, delete, and manage classifications, click Content » All classifications.
The system displays a list of the predefined classifications – tags and categories, together with all created custom classifications.
This section contains:
  • Use tags
    You use tags to filter content items according to some criterion. By clicking on different tags from the list of tags displayed on the webpage, the user can filter the content on the page.
  • Use categories
    The categories are presenting a hierarchical list. Use this procedure to create and manage categories.
  • Add categories and tags to content items
    You use categories and tags to filter content. By clicking different categories and tags from the treeview displayed on the webpage, you can filter the content of the page.
  • Set site-specific taxonomy
  • Create custom classifications
    In addition to tags and classifications, you can create custom classification. You can create either simple lists or hierarchical lists.
  • For developers: Taxonomies
    You use the API to perform tasks and operations related to flat and hierarchical taxonomies, as well as for associating content items with a specific taxon.
  • Tutorials: Taxonomies
    Using the Sitefinity CMS API, you can perform basic operations related with classifications and taxonomies. You can add or remove taxonomies and add or remove synonyms to tags, thus enabling you filter your content items by the tag name or by the tag synonyms.

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