The Taxonomy Block: Turn Your Categories and Tags Into a Way to Browse

List the terms of any taxonomy — categories, tags or a custom one — as a list, an inline row, a dropdown or a grid, with the post count on each, so readers can browse your site by topic.

You have the categories. Readers just have no way to browse them.

You’ve sorted every post into neat categories and tags. But on the page, that structure is invisible — a reader who loves your recipe posts has no signpost saying here’s everything on recipes. The theme might show a bare list in the sidebar, styled nothing like the rest of the site, and changing it means editing template files.

The Taxonomy block turns that hidden structure into something people can click. Drop it anywhere, pick a taxonomy, and it lists the terms — categories, tags or a custom one — in the shape and style you want, right in the page.

Four display styles — a list, an inline row, a dropdown or a grid, so the same terms fit a sidebar, a tag row under a post, or a whole browse-by-topic section.
Show the post count beside each term, so readers can see how much sits behind a category before they click.
Point it at any taxonomy — categories, tags or a custom one — and show nested parent and child terms as a tree.
Add an icon or text before or after each term and a separator between them — plus chip colours with hover, gap, padding and responsive columns.

Setting it up takes about a minute. Drop the Taxonomy block where you want it, pick the taxonomy from a dropdown, choose a display style, and the real terms from your site appear in the preview as you go. Style the chips in the sidebar and the front end matches — no template files, no code.

See it working

Every block below is real — each one lists this site’s own categories or tags, in a different display style. It’s the same Taxonomy block four times over, so you can see how one set of terms can look like a sidebar list, a tag row, a dropdown or a grid.

A vertical list, with the post count on each term. Categories down the page as a sidebar-style list — the number shows how many posts sit behind each one.

An inline row of tags, separated by a slash. The same block set to tags, laid out on one line with a separator between them — the shape you’d drop under a post.

A compact dropdown. Categories folded into a single select — handy where space is tight, like a footer or a narrow column.

A multi-column grid. The terms arranged in tidy columns — three across on desktop, dropping to one on mobile — with the post count on each.

One block, styled once

The terms come straight from your site, so the list is always current — publish a post in a new category and it shows up on its own. You choose the display style, the order, whether to show counts or empty terms, and how the chips look; the block keeps every term consistent, because one set of controls styles them all.

Give your topics a front door

The Taxonomy block ships with Flexa Block. Install it, drop it in a sidebar, a footer or under a post, and your categories and tags become a way for readers to explore.

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