How to display Custom Taxonomies in Post Meta using Neve PRO?
📝 Note: This feature is part of Neve PRO Addon, which you can purchase here.
In WordPress, taxonomies are a way to organize and categorize the content. While WordPress provides built-in taxonomies like categories and tags, you can also create custom taxonomies to better structure your content. This document will guide you through the process of creating a custom taxonomy using a Custom Post Type (CPT) plugin in WordPress.
🛠 Tools Needed:
- Neve theme - download and install
- Neve PRO Addon - download and install
- CPT UI plugin - this is our choice, but you can use other similar plugins as well (e.g. Pods, ACF)
| Install and Activate CPT UI Plugin | Create a Custom Taxonomy |
| Populate the Custom Taxonomy | Display Custom Taxonomy Terms |
🧰 Install and Activate CPT UI Plugin
1Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard.
2 Navigate to Plugins > Add New.
3 In the search bar, enter the name of the CPT UI plugin.
4Install and activate the plugin.
🧩 Create a Custom Taxonomy
In the following steps, we will explain how to create a custom taxonomy called Ingredients, where we will add corresponding ingredients for our recipes (posts).
1 In your WordPress dashboard, go to CPT UI.
2 Click on Add/Edit Taxonomies.
3 Fill in the details for your custom taxonomy:
- Plural Label: Ingredients
- Singular Label: Ingredient
- Slug: ingredient
4 Check Posts (WP Core) to associate this taxonomy with regular blog posts.
5 Click the Add Taxonomy button to create your Ingredients custom taxonomy.
6Repeat the above steps for as many taxonomies as you need.
🗂 Populate the Custom Taxonomy
Now that you have created the custom taxonomy for ingredients, you can add ingredients to your posts:
1Edit an existing recipe post or create a new one.
2 In the post editor, look for the Ingredients accordion.
3 Enter an ingredient name, and WordPress will provide suggestions from the custom taxonomy.
4Select the ingredient from the suggestions or type a new ingredient name if it doesn't exist.
5 Continue adding all the ingredients for your recipe, separating each ingredient with commas.
6Update or publish the recipe to save your changes.
📝 Note: You can see the available ingredients in 
WP Dashboard > Posts > Ingredients. It's also an alternative for adding ingredients, apart from directly typing them, as we did above.
🏷 Display Custom Taxonomy Terms
To display the custom taxonomy terms (ingredients), we will use the in-build Neve Pro feature.
1 Navigate to Neve > Customize > Blog.
2 Open the Single Post panel.
3 Under Post Meta, click on Add Item.
4 Inside the Type accordion, select Custom Taxonomy.
5 Inside the Name, insert the custom taxonomy's slug (e.g. ingredient).
6 Optionally, edit the Format of the meta to be more suggestive (e.g. Ingredients:).
💡Result
