Wordpress Taxonomies ussuage

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Can someone explain why I should use taxonomies on my site? I dont really understand the benefits of it. I'm new on wordpress and Ive read the codex.. Dont feel the need to over do your answer just a few lines so I can get a small understanding.

Thank you

Read the description of that [wordpress] tag. Such question is better asked in http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/ :) — luiges90, Dec 19 '12 at 06:52

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '12 at 00:53

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A taxonomy is a way of grouping/sorting your posts or custom post types. I used them recently on a real estate website, here is what I had:

Wordpress posts are the articles on the blog
I created a "listing" custom type with the same features as posts

My taxonomies are the following (they have categories behaviour): - Places - Type: condo, house or commercial - Wordpress categories are for the blog.

answered Dec 17 '12 at 00:53

Mathias Philippe

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could you give me the website adress? want to check it out. thank you – Abel Dec 17 '12 at 11:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 16 '12 at 19:36

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The taxonomies are good for SEO. It is a good way to find the content of your website. Also, you can use links to help your user. Clicking on this linki, he could se a list of content with that taxonomy.

answered Dec 16 '12 at 19:36

BigHouseWeb

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '12 at 22:40

A small example: I build websites for wineries. Some want to have navigation by wine style, e.g. a list of links to products that are "red", "white", "sparkling", "fortified", etc. I could use tags for that, but by creating a custom taxonomy I'm able to give the URLs a slug "style" instead of "tag", hence "example.com/style/red" and "example.com/style/white".

Wordpress Taxonomies ussuage

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