Zola has built-in support for taxonomies.

Configuration

A taxonomy has five variables:

• name: a required string that will be used in the URLs, usually the plural version (i.e., tags, categories, etc.)
• paginate_by: if this is set to a number, each term page will be paginated by this much.
• paginate_path: if set, this path will be used by the paginated page and the page number will be appended after it. For example the default would be page/1.
• rss: if set to true, an RSS feed will be generated for each term.
• lang: only set this if you are making a multilingual site and want to indicate which language this taxonomy is for

Example 1: (one language)

taxonomies = [ name = "categories", rss = true ]

Example 2: (multilingual site)

taxonomies = [
    {name = "tags", lang = "fr"},
    {name = "tags", lang = "eo"},
    {name = "tags", lang = "en"},
]

Using taxonomies

Once the configuration is done, you can then set taxonomies in your content and Zola will pick them up:

Example:

+++
title = "Writing a static-site generator in Rust"
date = 2019-08-15
[taxonomies]
tags = ["rust", "web"]
categories = ["programming"]
+++

Output paths

In a similar manner to how section and pages calculate their output path:

• the taxonomy name is never slugified
• the taxonomy entry (eg. as specific tag) is slugified when slugify_paths is enabled in the configuration

The taxonomy pages are then available at the following paths:

$BASE_URL/$NAME/ (taxonomy)
$BASE_URL/$NAME/$SLUG (taxonomy entry)