I always find it hard to work with tags, because if I can’t see the full list of tags, how can I figure out which ones to add? For example, I get shown this when I click the menu: [image] But I have for example these ones: [image] It gets super hard to properly tag posts if all I can see is a few tags. I’m not very interested in the most used, or the latest ones, or whatever system the software uses, because that doesn’t help. Can I bypass that and just have a scrolling list with all the tags? The search field is already super useful to find a specific tag, so having a full list would be great.

Found it: /admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=Max%20tag%20search%20results

@alltiagocom I know this has been marked as solved but I have a couple of follow-up questions if you don’t mind: does that setting apply to all categories or can it be defined for specific ones? can the max depth be set to greater than 20? Thanks, Rubi

You can configure max_tag_search_results between 1 and 1000 [Screenshot_20250716_162702_Firefox] It’s a site setting, so you cannot configure it per category

[image] Rubi: does that setting apply to all categories or can it be defined for specific ones? Even though you can’t set the setting per category, since you can restrict certain tags to certain categories, you won’t have ALL tags showing in certain categories. It’s not exactly what you probably want, but close, I believe. I don’t think, for my personal workflow, that limiting the max of tags per category would make much sense, because as I mentioned, I like to know what I have available. I don’t mind scrolling. And if I know I want a specific tag, I can just type it. I also don’t think that having 500 tags will do any good to the community, for example, so even 30 tags or so is probably enough? I don’t know… I’m just starting my 2 communities, so let’s see how that goes.

[image] alltiagocom: Even though you can’t set the setting per category, since you can restrict certain tags to certain categories, you won’t have ALL tags showing in certain categories. It’s not exactly what you probably want, but close, I believe Actually, I was just thinking about this so it is very relevant. Let’s say we have 200 tags on our site but when users select category A they will only see the tags associated with that specific category, maybe 50, and not all 200? Is my understanding correct?

Yes, you can group tags and say that category XYZ uses tags 1, 2, and 3, but category ABC only uses tags 4, 5, and 6. Go to the tag groups page (yourwebsite.com/tag_groups) and you can manage that there.

Thank you, this also solves all my questions :slightly_smiling_face:

Great! Glad I could help, as a beginner myself :wink:

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alltiagocom (Tiago) July 16, 2025, 2:54pm 10

Great! Glad I could help, as a beginner myself

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