# Can we add extra data to TaxonomyTerm?
**URL:** https://zola.discourse.group/t/can-we-add-extra-data-to-taxonomyterm/770
**Category:** Feature requests
**Created:** [February 3, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/can-we-add-extra-data-to-taxonomyterm/770 "2021-02-03T10:12:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@behnam](https://zola.discourse.group/u/behnam)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/can-we-add-extra-data-to-taxonomyterm/770/1 "2021-02-03T10:12:51Z")
I’m setting up a site structure where I like to attach some extra data to some taxonomy terms (in addition to their `name`), to be able to use this data during rendering of the term under the `list` or `single` templates.
An example of such data would be like a “subtitle” or “short-description” / “summary” for the term.
It’s great that we can do that for pages, and it looks like a very useful feature missing from terms.
I think a work-around for the missing feature is to write a macro which, given the taxonomy name and term, returns the needed data. However, this would be something hard to maintain, b/c of the disconnect between the term definition and where the data would be stored.
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### Author:  [@southerntofu](https://zola.discourse.group/u/southerntofu)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/can-we-add-extra-data-to-taxonomyterm/770/2 "2021-02-03T13:44:39Z")
Hi, i agree this is a useful feature, especially when it comes to translations of taxonomy stuff. [Here](https://tildegit.org/southerntofu/staticadventures/src/branch/master/templates/skills/single.html) is how i do it on my blog:
- have orphan pages in some folder in content, to describe my taxonomy terms
- get those pages in the templates, and use the page attributes to provide more “taxonomy” context
I think that would be a workaround for your usecase, do you agree?
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### Author:  [@chris-morgan](https://zola.discourse.group/u/chris-morgan)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2021, 6:30am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/can-we-add-extra-data-to-taxonomyterm/770/3 "2021-02-06T06:30:36Z")
I use lots of `extra.*` values on page front matter and site config alike for things like this.
A few excerpts from my site:
**config.toml:**
```auto
[extra.taxonomies."blog/tags"]
[extra.taxonomies."blog/tags".misc]
name = "Miscellaneous"
title = "Anything otherwise uncategorised"
description = "These posts are one‐off tech‐related things that I don’t have a better categorisation for."
[extra.taxonomies."blog/tags".rust]
name = "Rust"
title = "The Rust programming language"
description = "I write about Rust things routinely. Here they all are."
[extra.taxonomies."blog/tags".fun]
name = "Fun"
description = "Most of what I write is intended to be useful, but sometimes I write things just for fun. I make no guarantee that you will enjoy them; it is enough that I do."
```
**templates/blog/tags/single.html** (simplified):
```auto
Blog posts tagged “{{ config.extra.taxonomies["blog/tags"][term.slug].name }}”
{{ config.extra.taxonomies["blog/tags"][term.slug].description }}
```
And one of my many macross:
```nohighlight
{% macro render_tag(name, link=true) %}
{%- set title = config.extra.taxonomies["blog/tags"][name].title | default(value = '') -%}
<
{%- if link -%}
a href={{ get_taxonomy_url(kind="blog/tags", name=name) }}
{%- else -%}
span
{%- endif %} class=tag
{%- if title %} title="{{ title }}"{% endif -%}
>{{ config.extra.taxonomies["blog/tags"][name].name }}
{%- endmacro %}
```
(Meta: @keats, this site’s highlight.js needs a few languages added: rust, toml, and django, ideally with “tera” as an alias for django. I hope it’s possible to add them in this environment?)
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### Author:  [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/can-we-add-extra-data-to-taxonomyterm/770/4 "2021-02-06T15:36:53Z")
> [@chris-morgan](#):
>
> (Meta: @keats, this site’s highlight.js needs a few languages added: rust, toml, and django, ideally with “tera” as an alias for django. I hope it’s possible to add them in this environment?)
I’ve just added Rust, TypeScript, Django and Twig (closest to Jinja2/Tera). Toml doesn’t seem available 😕