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date: 2014-05-26
linktitle: Structure & Methods
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Hugo makes a set of values and methods available on the various Taxonomy structures.
## Taxonomy Methods
A Taxonomy is a `map[string]WeightedPages`.
.Get(term)
: Returns the WeightedPages for a term.
.Count(term)
: The number of pieces of content assigned to this term.
.Alphabetical
: Returns an OrderedTaxonomy (slice) ordered by Term.
.ByCount
: Returns an OrderedTaxonomy (slice) ordered by number of entries.
## OrderedTaxonomy
Since Maps are unordered, an OrderedTaxonomy is a special structure that has a defined order.
```go
[]struct {
Name string
WeightedPages WeightedPages
}
```
Each element of the slice has:
.Term
: The Term used.
.WeightedPages
: A slice of Weighted Pages.
.Count
: The number of pieces of content assigned to this term.
.Pages
: All Pages assigned to this term. All [list methods](/templates/list/) are available to this.
## WeightedPages
WeightedPages is simply a slice of WeightedPage.
```go
type WeightedPages []WeightedPage
```
.Count(term)
: The number of pieces of content assigned to this term.
.Pages
: Returns a slice of pages, which then can be ordered using any of the [list methods](/templates/list/).