Custom taxonomies are a core feature introduced in WordPress ver.3 and 3.1 included many enhancements to support custom taxonomies. There are four built-in taxonomies in WordPress which are Categories,Tags,Links and Navigation menu respectively.<\/p>\n
Besides that creating your own custom taxonomies will allow you to group content in a new way. In WordPress you can create \/register a new taxonomy by using the register_taxonomy() function. Here is simple example code for creating custom taxonomies. Copy below code to your functions.php of your wordpress theme and it will create custom taxonomies.<\/p>\n
\r\n\r\n 'Members',\r\n 'singular_name' => 'Member',\r\n 'search_items' => 'Search Members',\r\n 'all_items' => 'All Members',\r\n 'parent_item' => 'Parent Member',\r\n 'parent_item_colon' => 'Parent Member:',\r\n 'update_item' => 'Update Member',\r\n 'edit_item' => 'Edit Member',\r\n 'add_new_item' => 'Add New Member', \r\n 'new_item_name' => 'New Member Name',\r\n 'menu_name' => 'Member'\r\n );\r\n \r\n \/\/define arguments to be used \r\n $args = array(\r\n 'labels' => $labels,\r\n 'hierarchical' => true,\r\n 'show_ui' => true,\r\n 'how_in_nav_menus' => true,\r\n 'public' => true,\r\n 'show_admin_column' => true,\r\n 'query_var' => true,\r\n 'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'member')\r\n );\r\n \r\n \/\/call the register_taxonomy function\r\n register_taxonomy($taxonomy, $object_type, $args); \r\n}\r\nadd_action('init','add_member_taxonomy_to_post'); \r\n\r\n?>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n