I’m working on a site that deals with animals that are routinely referred to by their latin names. I want to set up genus and species tags that can be added to topics but I’ll need them to always display in that order even if the species name is lower than the genus name alphabetically. Is there a…

Mhh :thinking: As far as I know you can’t change the order of them per se. They are either sorted by popularity or alphabetically I think. To create your own order you’d probably need some sort of plugin I’d imagine? You can try developing this yourself or ask in Marketplace

It turns out the answer is so much simpler than you’d think, and should probably be in a document for future reference. I spent all day working trying to get both a theme component and a plugin to work to do what I wanted, with no luck. Then for fun I looked at the values of ascii characters and s…

That is a great workaround. As this question has often come up in the past for different things Like state then city, car manufacturer and model. Etc.. One question though. With using the “'” and “,”. I imagine a minor caveat would be it might affect using “#” to put tag say here ie ux ? This …

That’s really thinking out the box. Glad you got it working!

Awesome ingenuity and discovery. Hopefully the team spots this. However this could maybe added as a supplement to documentation on tags. Maybe in the wiki? There is a documentation project. Main topic introducing it here [image] Documentation contribution opportunities Site fee…

I’m curious to know if this workaround is still working for you. I tried it today in relation to another topic and found that when I create a tag today with an apostrophe or comma it’s either rejected or silently stripped out. (Prefacing a tag with ~ is accepted for some reason, though – but it doe…

Invisible way to force display order of tags?

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tknospdr (David Muszynski) May 30, 2025, 3:05am 5

It appears to work perfectly, I didn’t even have to know about the hidden character, I just started typing the hashtag then A-V and the list filtered down for me as normal.

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Invisible way to force display order of tags?

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