diff --git a/website/config.toml b/website/config.toml
index cf33551a14..7c608f09f1 100644
--- a/website/config.toml
+++ b/website/config.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,15 @@ defaultContentLanguageInSubdir = false
 # Useful when translating.
 enableMissingTranslationPlaceholders = true
 
-disableKinds = ["taxonomy", "taxonomyTerm"]
+disableKinds = []
+[taxonomies]
+tag = "tags"
+category = "categories"
+project = "projects"
+[params.taxonomy]
+taxonomyCloud = ["projects", "tags"] # set taxonomyCloud = [] to hide taxonomy clouds
+taxonomyCloudTitle = ["Our Projects", "Tag Cloud"] # if used, must have same length as taxonomyCloud
+taxonomyPageHeader = ["tags", "categories"] # set taxonomyPageHeader = [] to hide taxonomies on the page headers
 
 # Highlighting config
 pygmentsCodeFences = true
diff --git a/website/content/en/blog/2025/first-post.md b/website/content/en/blog/2025/first-post.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2fb0574267
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+++ b/website/content/en/blog/2025/first-post.md
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+---
+date: 2025-04-26
+title: "Introducing the Cortex Blog: Sharing Our Journey"
+linkTitle: Hello Cortex!
+tags: [ "blog", "cortex", "community", "updates" ]
+categories: [ "blog" ]
+projects: [ "cortex" ]
+description: >
+  Welcome to the Cortex blog! We're excited to share updates, best practices, and community highlights around everything Cortex. Stay tuned for technical deep-dives, deployment strategies, and more.
+author: Charlie Le ([@charlietle](https://twitter.com/charlietle))
+---
+
+Welcome to the official Cortex blog!
+
+We’re kicking things off here to share updates, best practices,
+technical deep-dives, and community highlights around everything Cortex.
+Whether you're operating a Cortex cluster, integrating it into your observability platform,
+or just starting to explore scalable time-series databases — you're in the right place.
+
+In the coming weeks, you can expect posts on:
+- Real-world Cortex deployment strategies and lessons learned
+- Tips for running Cortex efficiently at scale
+- Deep dives into key Cortex concepts like blocks storage, ruler sharding, and query federation
+- Guides to help new contributors get involved with the project
+- Interviews with maintainers and users from across the community
+- Roadmap insights and upcoming features we're excited about
+
+Cortex has grown a lot thanks to a vibrant community of operators, contributors, and partners.
+This blog will be another space for us to connect, learn from each other, and push the project even further.
+
+Stay tuned — the first technical post is coming soon!
+
+If there's a topic you’d love to see covered, feel free to reach out or open a discussion in our [Cortex community forums](https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/discussions).
+
+Thanks for being part of the journey! 🚀
+
+— The Cortex Team
diff --git a/website/content/en/blog/_index.md b/website/content/en/blog/_index.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b4ff77a17e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/website/content/en/blog/_index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+title: Blog
+menu: {main: {weight: 30}}
+---