# Displaying the first taxonomy term

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**Created:** [April 4, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/displaying-the-first-taxonomy-term/2929 "2026-04-04T18:26:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![BjornW](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/bjornw/32/1594_2.png) [@BjornW](https://zola.discourse.group/u/BjornW)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/displaying-the-first-taxonomy-term/2929/1 "2026-04-04T18:26:39Z")

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Hi, I’ve just stared using Zola and I’m working on my own templates. My objective is to display the first term from both taxonomies in the template ‘recept.html’ preferable with a link. So when people click on the link they get all a list of all recipes with the same term.

I have added two taxonomies to zola.toml (main section):

```auto
taxonomies = [ 
    { name = "recept-moeilijkheidsgraad", feed = true},
    { name = "recept-tijdsduur", feed = true}, 
] 

```

In my template ‘recept.html I have the following:

`<li>Moeilijkheidsgraad: {{ page.taxonomies.recept-moeilijkheidsgraad[0] }} </li>`  
`<li>Tijdsduur: {{ page.taxonomies.recept-tijdsduur[0] }} </li>`

And in my content (a-recipe.md) I have:  
`recept-moeilijkheidsgraad = ["makkelijk"]`  
`recept-tijdsduur = ["10min"] `

At this moment I get the following error:  
`ERROR Failed to build the site`  
`ERROR Failed to render page ‘/home/bjorn/Documents/Doeidag/website/content/recepten/Recept-een-oude-laptop-voorzien-van-Linux-Mint.md’`  
`ERROR Reason: Failed to render ‘recept.html’`  
`ERROR Reason: Variable page.taxonomies.recept not found in context while rendering ‘recept.html’`

I wonder if I can use hyphens in the taxonomy name? Can I use [0] to select the first term only? Is this a proper way to do this?

Sorry I’m a complete newbie with Zola, Tera and Rust so please excuse my ignorance.