Build Websites with Hugo

Organizing Content with Taxonomies

Many blogs and content systems let you place your posts in categories and apply tags to your posts. This logical grouping of content is known as a taxonomy. Hugo supports categories and tags out of the box and can generate category and tag list pages automatically. All you have to do is add categories and tags to your front matter.

Open the posts archetype at archetypes/post.md and add some default categories and tags:

blog/portfolio/archetypes/posts.md

categories:
- Personal
- Thoughts
tags:
- software
- html

Adding these defaults to the archetype won’t affect the content you’ve already created, so open content/posts/first-post.md and add categories and tags there too:

blog/portfolio/content/posts/first-post.md ...