# Using a Taxonomy to a Content Type Walkthrough

### About this export

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| **content_type** | lesson |
| **platform** | contentstack-academy |
| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations/using-a-taxonomy-to-a-content-type-walkthrough |
| **course_slug** | taxonomy-foundations |
| **lesson_slug** | using-a-taxonomy-to-a-content-type-walkthrough |
| **learning_path_slug** | contentstack-developer-certification |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations/using-a-taxonomy-to-a-content-type-walkthrough.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-05-22T14:37:41.405Z |

> Lesson in **[Taxonomy Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations)** within the **contentstack-developer-certification** learning path on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Video details

#### At a glance

- **Title:** Add Taxonomy  To Content Type2
- **Duration:** 2m 1s
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- **Publish date (unix):** 1716059980

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#### Video transcript

Let's now use our newly created taxonomy in a content type. To get started, first navigate to the content models window, and in content types, open the character content type. Here we want to add our new taxonomy. For that, after the URL field, click on the plus icon, and here select taxonomy. First, you can only have one taxonomy per content type. So this is my one taxonomy field. I'm going to leave it named as taxonomy, and unique ID is always taxonomies. I'm going to go ahead and click outside this window, and then click the add taxonomy button. Here at add taxonomy, we now have a chance to select our superhero taxonomy. Let's go ahead and choose that. I also have the option to enter a maximum number of terms. I'm going to leave that empty for now, and I'm going to keep it as an optional field. It's always a good idea when you're editing an existing content type, is to add them as optional fields, so that the data does not need to be updated for all the entries. So let's go ahead and click apply. That's all we have to do to add our new taxonomy field. So click save and close, and now let's tag one of our characters with some superhero powers. So go over to entries, and select one of the composable heroes here. I'm going to go ahead and choose cyber search. Here under terms, I'm going to open that up and choose origin. I'm going to choose natural powers. Under powers and abilities, I want to choose flight, and then click apply. Finally, I want to save this item, and now I've tagged this character with these two terms. That gives me many things I can do in content stack, including filtering these items based on taxonomy. So now I can go into the bottom left, choose origin, and finally choose natural powers. You can see my cyber search character is returned. Thanks for watching this video.

#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Using a Taxonomy to a Content Type Walkthrough** 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

Using a Taxonomy to a Content Type Walkthrough. Using a Taxonomy to a Content Type Walkthrough in Taxonomy Foundations (taxonomy-foundations).

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- Using
- Taxonomy
- Content
- Type
- Walkthrough
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- lesson 08
- Using a Taxonomy to a Content Type Walkthrough
- taxonomy-foundations lesson

### Indexing notes

Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "08" and topics: [Using, Taxonomy, Content, Type, Walkthrough].
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

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| Video thumbnail: Using a Taxonomy to a Content Type Walkthrough | `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/NejnWu2Y/poster.jpg?width=720` |

### External links

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| 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/` |