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date: 2014-05-26
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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. <br>
**.Count(term)** The number of pieces of content assigned to this term.<br>
**.Alphabetical** Returns an OrderedTaxonomy (slice) ordered by Term. <br>
**.ByCount** Returns an OrderedTaxonomy (slice) ordered by number of entries. <br>
## OrderedTaxonomy
Since Maps are unordered, an OrderedTaxonomy is a special structure that has a defined order.
[]struct {
Name string
WeightedPages WeightedPages
}
Each element of the slice has:
**.Term** The Term used.<br>
**.WeightedPages** A slice of Weighted Pages.<br>
**.Count** The number of pieces of content assigned to this term.<br>
**.Pages** All Pages assigned to this term. All [list methods](/templates/list/) are available to this.<br>
## WeightedPages
WeightedPages is simply a slice of WeightedPage.
type WeightedPages []WeightedPage
**.Count(term)** The number of pieces of content assigned to this term.<br>
**.Pages** Returns a slice of pages, which then can be ordered using any of the [list methods](/templates/list/). <br>