Not understanding the new taxonomies

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I just upgrade to 2.0x. A few hiccups but ghost update --force blasted through. Everything works fine.

When you do this upgrade, you get a default routes yaml that looks like:

routes:

collections:
  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template:
      - index

taxonomies:
  tag: /tag/{slug}/
  author: /author/{slug}/

I thought this would enable me to reach posts as (in the case of this specific blog):
We Did It! | Bike Across America.

But, this leads to a 404. Is there something else I need to setup to get a tag based permalink? Or are taxonomies only useful with filters?

Big gaps in my understanding. This was easy on wordpress.

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Taxonomies are what control tag and author pages - e.g. the page tag/bike-across-america that will show all of your posts with that tag. The new dynamic routing feature is documented here:

https://docs.ghost.org/docs/dynamic-routing

If you want to change the permalink structure for your posts, you’d need to change the permalink setting for the / collection. Assuming you’re looking for the first tag of each post to appear in the url, you’d want to change it to

permalink: /{primary_tag}/{slug}/

Of course, if you think WordPress is better you are free to use it… I’m not really sure what that comment was meant to accomplish.

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