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title: Taxonomies in the admin UI
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

## Configure taxonomies

Before you enable content editors to assign tags to content, you need to create taxonomies and tags.

1. [Create a taxonomy](#create-a-taxonomy)
2. [Create tags in a taxonomy](#create-tags-in-a-taxonomy)

### Create a taxonomy

To create a new taxonomy:

1. Navigate to the **Taxonomies** application.
2. Select **New taxonomy**.
3. Enter details about the taxonomy.
   - **Taxonomy name** – the name that is displayed to users in the administration interface.
   - _(Optional)_ **Identifiers** – specify the code name if you wish to use a code name different than the pre-filled value.
   - _(Optional)_ **Description** – an explanation of the taxonomy and its intended use. This field is intended as an internal guide for other content editors to understand where the given taxonomy is used, and is not intended to be displayed publicly.
4. **Save** the taxonomy.

The taxonomy is now created and you can add tags.

> **Tip:** **Tip**: When you edit an already created taxonomy, you can also localize the _Taxonomy name_ field.

### Create tags in a taxonomy

To create new tags:

1. Navigate to the **Taxonomies** application.
2. Select a taxonomy under which you want to create tags.
3. In the taxonomy tree on the left, select a node under which you want to create the new tag.
4. Select **New tag**.
5. Enter details about the tag.
   - **Title** – the name that is displayed to users and visitors.
   - _(Optional)_ **Identifiers** – specify code name if you wish to use code name different than the default.
   - _(Optional)_ **Description** – an explanation of the tag that can be displayed publicly depending on the implementation.
   - _(Optional)_ In the **Translations** section, you can localize the _Title_ and _Description_ fields of the tag for any [languages](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/languages.md) that are configured in the system.
6. **Save** the tag.
   - If you with to save the tag and continue creating other tags in the same location, select **Save and create another**.