Editing tags (renaming and deleting)

[brunoedigital (Bruno)]

Not sure if I’ve missed, but where can I edit my tags?

Is there a bulk tag editing feature?

I’ve searched around topics here but couldn’t find it.

If there is indeed a topic explaining, please let me know

[dax (Daniela)]

@brunoedigital

where can I edit my tags?

Click on the tag you want to rename and in that tag’s page you can see the buttons Delete and Rename tags

@brunoedigital

Is there a bulk tag editing feature?

No, from what I can see.

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

Tags are created dynamically. Assuming tags are enabled via Site Settings, and you have a trust level that allows tag creation, you can simply add a tag to a topic during creation, or via edit. As a staff user, you can edit tags by going to the tags page, http://<your discourse domain>/tags, clicking on a tag, then click rename or delete.

Edit: whoops, ninja’d by @Trash

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

@brunoedigital

Is there a bulk tag editing feature?

@brunoedigital, can you explain exactly what you are looking for? There is a change tags feature in the admin wrench. To access, click the small icon to the top right of the topic list, then select via check boxes the topics you wish to change the tags on. Next, click the admin wrench in the top right, and click Change Tags. Enter the tags you want, and click Change Tags. Important note: doing so changes the tags, it does not append them. Any tags currently on the selected topics will be removed, so this does not work to add a tag to topics that already have tags. The option to mass append tags has been request, however.

Multi-select "Change Tags" breaks stuff

Let’s say I want to add tag Y to every topic that is already tagged X. But some topics with tag X have other tags, A, B, or C. It seems to me that there’s no way to display a listing of all tag X topics, use the Change Tags button, and add that tag Y without losing the existing A, B, or C tags on the topics that have them. Can anyone else confirm this, or am I doing something wrong? Can anything be done to fix it?

Bulk Actions: "Add Tags" in addition to "Change Tags"

Today I made the rather sad discovery that the bulk “change tags” feature depicted below actually will set the tags for selected topics to be exactly the same as the tags entered, meaning it will remove any existing tags. Discovery is sad because I accidentally borked 20 or more topic tags because I misunderstood what was going to happen, and there’s no undo. A fix to this would be to add a new “Add Tags” option to the bulk actions, which would allow the bulk adding of tags to…

[brunoedigital (Bruno)]

Thanks @Trash and @jomaxro — all clear now Appreciated!

BTW @jomaxro the small icon you mention is this one right?

[dax (Daniela)]

Yep, when you flag a topic a wrench icon appears on the right and you can manage topics

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

Yes, exactly as @Trash said. Sorry I didn’t get screenshots, I’m on mobile for the next week while travelling.