Plan a taxonomy
Group categories within taxonomies.
You cannot use taxonomies in menu searches. If you would like to have a menu return results based on content profiled with any category in a taxonomy, you should create a single top-level category and base the menu on the top-level category.
Metabank Taxonomy
- Financial
- Banking Solutions
- Interest Rates
- Personal
- Business
- Corporate
- News
Use categories to profile content
When building a hierarchy of taxonomies and categories it is important to consider how a menu will use your categories in a search. This is because menus search both upwards and downwards within groups of categories.
If you base a menu on a top-level category, all content profiled with categories belonging to that top-level category and their descendants will appear in the menu.
In the above example, a menu based on Financial will display content profiled with any of the following:
- Financial
- Banking Solutions
- Interest Rates
- Personal
- Business
- Corporate
If you base a menu on a mid-level category, all content profiled with the mid-level category or its descendants or its ancestors appear in the menu. A Menu based on Interest Rates, it will display Content profiled with any of the following:
- Financial
- Interest Rates
- Personal
- Business
- Corporate
If you base a menu on a bottom-level category, all content profiled with the bottom-level category or its ancestors will be returned by the menu. A Menu based on Business will display content profiled with any of the following:
- Financial
- Interest Rates
- Business.
Parent topic
Developing a taxonomy