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silverstripe/taxonomy
=====================

Provide extra taxonomy for cataloguing the data.

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Taxonomy
========

[](#taxonomy)

[![CI](https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-taxonomy/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-taxonomy/actions/workflows/ci.yml)[![Silverstripe supported module](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9b7e93d393a01f6d3091fb30983b870aa863ef076858115faaa1c74b995854ec/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f62616467652f73696c7665727374726970652d737570706f727465642d3030373143342e737667)](https://www.silverstripe.org/software/addons/silverstripe-commercially-supported-module-list/)

Introduction
------------

[](#introduction)

The Taxonomy module add the capability to add and edit simple taxonomies within Silverstripe.

Features
--------

[](#features)

Create multiple taxonomies with any number of nested terms.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require silverstripe/taxonomy
```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

### Translations

[](#translations)

Translations of the natural language strings are managed through a third party translation interface, transifex.com. Newly added strings will be periodically uploaded there for translation, and any new translations will be merged back to the project source code.

Please use  to contribute translations, rather than sending pull requests with YAML files.

Reporting Issues
----------------

[](#reporting-issues)

Please [create an issue](http://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-taxonomy/issues) for any bugs you've found, or features you're missing.

###  Health Score

65

—

FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance66

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity45

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community43

Growing community involvement

Maturity94

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor3

3 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~54 days

Recently: every ~0 days

Total

86

Last Release

233d ago

Major Versions

3.2.2 → 4.0.0-alpha12024-09-26

3.2.3 → 4.0.0-beta12025-02-14

3.1.x-dev → 4.0.x-dev2025-06-19

3.2.4 → 4.1.12025-11-08

3.x-dev → 4.1.x-dev2025-11-13

PHP version history (4 changes)2.3.0PHP ^7.3 || ^8.0

2.4.0PHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

3.0.0-beta1PHP ^8.1

4.0.0-alpha1PHP ^8.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/654636?v=4)[Aaron Carlino](/maintainers/unclecheese)[@unclecheese](https://github.com/unclecheese)

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