Vocabularies and terms

Each category group, or vocabulary, can contain multiple category entries, or terms, for tagging content.

For example, a web-based discussion community might have a vocabulary Topics with terms such as

• Technology
• Politics
• Education
• Religion
• Sports

An administrator might also choose to create multiple vocabularies for use with the same node type. Consider another vocabulary for use alongside of Topics, one which classifies nodes in another way:

Content with terms

• News
• Reviews
• Announcements
• Opinions

New vocabularies can also be created or added to at any time, with as few or as many terms as the administrator may need. And do not worry. Long before reaching Drupal's limits at handling very large classification schemes, users would find large vocabularies and terms unwieldy to use and maintain.

NOTE: When creating terms for a new vocabulary, administrators might want to provide users with a catchall term, such as Miscellaneous. Administrators can then review nodes tagged with Miscellaneous to see if a need exists for new terms. Once new terms are created, ambitious administrators can also update nodes with the new tag and remove the catchall category tag.