Step 4: Create Custom Taxonomies
Introduction
Follow this information to create a custom taxonomy.
Add A Custom Taxonomy
Make your way to Divi Engine > Add/Edit Taxonomies and Add a New Taxonomy.
Customize Your Taxonomy
Enter in a name for your Taxonomy and Divi Machine will auto-populate the rest for you. For more information on each setting please scroll down to the bottom of this page.
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Make sure you do not use WordPress Reserved Terms for your Custom Taxonomy.
Custom Taxonomy Settings
General Settings
- Taxonomy Slug: Slugs should only contain alphanumeric, latin characters. Underscores should be used in place of spaces.
- Name (Plural): Used for the taxonomy admin menu item.
- Name (Single): Used when a singular label is needed.
- Attach to Post Type: Choose which post or custom post you want to attach it to.
Labels
Define the labels for the custom taxonomy
Advanced Options
- Public: Whether a taxonomy is intended for use publicly either via the admin interface or by front-end users.
- Public Queryable:Whether or not the taxonomy should be publicly queryable.
- Hierarchical:Whether the taxonomy can have parent-child relationships.
- Show UI:Whether to generate a default UI for managing this custom taxonomy.
- Show In Menu:Whether to show the taxonomy in the admin menu.
- Show In Nav Menus: Whether to make the taxonomy available for selection in navigation menus. (Appearance > Menu)
- Rewrite: Whether or not WordPress should use rewrites for this taxonomy.
- Custom Rewrite String: Custom taxonomy rewrite slug.
- Rewrite With Front: Should the permastructure be prepended with the front base.
- Rewrite Hierarchical: Should the permastructure allow hierarchical URLs.