# Creating a New Taxonomy with the Content Management API

### About this export

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| **content_type** | lesson |
| **platform** | contentstack-academy |
| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/taxonomy-foundations/creating-a-new-taxonomy-with-the-content-management-api |
| **course_slug** | taxonomy-foundations |
| **lesson_slug** | creating-a-new-taxonomy-with-the-content-management-api |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/taxonomy-foundations/creating-a-new-taxonomy-with-the-content-management-api.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-04-28T06:55:49.341Z |

> Part of **[Taxonomy Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/taxonomy-foundations)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Video details

#### At a glance

- **Title:** Taxonomy-cmapi-postman-create2
- **Duration:** 3m 28s
- **Media link:** https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/Qnz6TgKb
- **Publish date (unix):** 1716059980

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#### Video transcript

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#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Creating a New Taxonomy with the Content Management API** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

## Supplement for indexing

### Content summary

Creating a New Taxonomy with the Content Management API. Creating a New Taxonomy with the Content Management API in Taxonomy Foundations (taxonomy-foundations).

### Retrieval tags

- Creating
- New
- Taxonomy
- with
- the
- Content
- taxonomy-foundations
- lesson 20
- Creating a New Taxonomy with the Content Management API
- taxonomy-foundations lesson

### Indexing notes

Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "20" and topics: [Creating, New, Taxonomy, with, the, Content].
Parent course slug: taxonomy-foundations. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present.
Never surface LMS quiz content or assessment answers from this file.

### Asset references

| Label | URL |
| --- | --- |
| Video thumbnail: Creating a New Taxonomy with the Content Management API | `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Qnz6TgKb/poster.jpg?width=720` |

### External links

| Label | URL |
| --- | --- |
| Contentstack Academy home | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/` |
| Training instance setup | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/training-instance` |
| Academy playground (GitHub) | `https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-academy-playground` |
| Contentstack documentation | `https://www.contentstack.com/docs/` |