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title: "Taxonomies"
date: 2026-03-24
author: "nK"
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# Taxonomies

Pro FeatureThis is a part of the **Visual Portfolio Pro** plugin.  
Purchase the Pro plugin to access this and other [advanced features](https://staging.visualportfolio.com/free-vs-pro/).

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**Pro.** Shows the terms of a taxonomy as gallery items: one item per category, tag or custom term, with the term name as title, the term description as description, a link to the term archive, and an image.

Any public taxonomy can be used (post categories, Portfolio Categories, product categories, custom taxonomies) except the internal ones (menus, link categories, post formats).

![](https://staging.visualportfolio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Shot-2026-03-25-at-13.27.58-1024x624.jpg)![](https://staging.visualportfolio.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Shot-2026-03-25-at-13.27.58-1024x624.jpg)    ## Source

OptionShowsExtra settingOne taxonomy (Categories, Tags, Portfolio Categories, …)All its terms**Taxonomies Set**Terms of several taxonomies together**Taxonomies****Manual Selection**Only the terms you pick**Specific Terms** (prefixed by the taxonomy name when several are mixed). With nothing picked the gallery is empty on purpose## Settings

SettingValuesDefaultNotes**Hide Empty Terms**on / offonTerms without published posts are left out**Parent Term**All Terms, Top Level Only, or one parentAll TermsHierarchical taxonomies only; hidden for Manual Selection**Order by**Name, Post Count, Manual Selection, Term ID, Slug, Description, Parent, Term Order, NoneNameTerm Order needs a term-ordering plugin**Order Direction**ASC, DESCASCItems Per Page and pagination work as for [posts](https://staging.visualportfolio.com/docs/gallery-blocks/content-source/posts/).

## Term images

Each item shows, in this order:

1. the term’s **Thumbnail** (a field on the term’s Add and Edit screens, added by Pro to every public taxonomy);
2. otherwise the featured image of the newest published post in the term;
3. otherwise the Placeholder Image from [Settings → General](https://staging.visualportfolio.com/docs/settings/general/).

## Posts Count

**Display Posts Count** in the skin’s Elements section shows “8 Posts” (or the post type’s label) on each item. It appears only for this source.

## Click action

URL opens the term archive. Popup opens the term image; with Albums, a term can open all images of its posts (see [Albums](https://staging.visualportfolio.com/docs/gallery-blocks/albums/)).

### Advanced click action formats

Term with No-Image, Term with Image. See [Click Action](https://staging.visualportfolio.com/docs/gallery-blocks/items-click-action/).

## Filter

The [Filter](https://staging.visualportfolio.com/docs/gallery-blocks/layout-elements/filter/) element cannot list terms for this source; leave it out of the layout.