# Admin guide to tags in Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-guide-to-tags-in-discourse/121041>\
**Category:** Site Management\
**Tags:** reference, tags\
**Created:** [June 22, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-guide-to-tags-in-discourse/121041 "2019-06-22T03:46:06Z")\
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What I want to do is have tags that can be used across categories and can be added within a reply under a topic that does not have that tag set as an optional in it.

Is there a way to utilize tags in a reply under a topic that does not have the tag as an optional tag in the header?  
So I have a topic with Phoenix as an optional tag and that’s the topic that I created that tag in.  
I would like to be able to utilize #Phoenix under other topics in other categories and be able to click on the tag within a reply and have it give the results with all of the other replies and posts that have that tag (#phoenix) in it, without it having to be in every topic header. I would also like to be able to do the same thing with (#issue, #Problem-Solved, etc…)

here is the topic that I created the tag in the header.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/c/d/0cd4b1c728bdbe9a5b342af61f89ddfbb4090efe.png)

here are a couple posts/replies that I have tagged with Phoenix that I would expect to be in the results for that tag. They are not showing up, only the topic with the optional tag Phoenix added to it is showing.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/9/a/39ae31fcd9a8682eab2b1c4c7fc42504f4c68ae4.png)  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/6/b/26b586c65582463d8757719fa019d5e7aca969a0.png)  
 ![image|690x217 75%](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/9/c/19c377614f87ffed428adab8fc75d5e5632b8cee.png)

here is the results when I click on the tag in one of the replies from a different topic that has the tag Phoenix in it. It is my expectation that any post either a topic or a reply that has the tag Phoenix in it should show up in this list. But it’s only showing posts that are a topic with the Phoenix as an optional tag within that topic header.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/a/e/2aec0850395f7bc78320a53be355c94a5fed60fd.png)

Here are the results when I do a word search for Phoenix on the site.

 ![image|690x447 50%](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/9/2/c9209261159c765aae60a52ea353b756e2bd3445.png)  
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