Organizing your content is one of the core features of a content-management system (CMS) like WordPress. As such, WordPress contains “taxonomies” to help you keep your content easy to find for both you and your visitors. Today we’re focused on why and how to make a WordPress custom taxonomy.

WordPress’s get_queried_object() function has the distinction of being, I think, the most useful core function in WordPress that I didn’t know about for the longest time.

In our recent article on setup_postdata(), a reader posted a good question: how to sort a fetched array of WP_Post objects alphabetically by their terms in a given taxonomy?

We recently used this plugin by the prolific scribu to solve a problem we had: How to migrate an existing WordPress taxonomy (with lots of terms and lots of posts having those terms) to another post type?

I recently explained the very basics of how you actually set up a custom taxonomy in WordPress. Along with custom post types and custom fields — which I thought about telling you about today, but they can wait — they’re what make WordPress a powerful and fully-featured content management system.