This discussion centers around enhancing Discourse’s bulk tag management features, specifically requesting the ability to remove tags—either all tags or a specific tag—from multiple topics at once. jomaxro initially requested a “remove all tags” bulk action after manually cleaning up topics by replacing tags with temporary ones. meglio and Heather_Dudley echoed the need, noting that current options only allow appending or replacing tags (which requires at least one tag to be set), making targeted removal impossible. Heather suggested adding a “remove this tag” option directly in the tag management UI when topics are selected, especially useful for cleaning up misapplied tags in new communities. techAPJ later confirmed that removing all tags is now implemented. However, depadiernos and jomaxro clarified that the community also wants to remove specific tags from multiple topics—not just all tags—and proposed extending the feature to allow selecting which tag to remove. Moin pointed to a separate topic for this specific request. Finally, mcwumbly closed this thread as complete, directing further discussion on granular tag removal to the linked topic.
Today I was doing some cleanup of older topics, and this included work on tags. After recategorizing topics I wanted to remove all tags on topics, but there isn’t a bulk action to do this. I ended up using the change topics action. As it is a destructive action (not append) I changed the tag to a temporary tag, which I then could delete from the /tags UI. Adding a “remove all tags” action would be appreciated.
I would like a “remove this tag from selected posts” bulk option in the tag management window. Right now I can replace the tags (which destroys all tags on the post) or add tags, but I can’t remove the tags.
Now, this dialogue is more general bulk actions, so it might be better to add this to the top of the tag’s page, to appear when you select topics within the screen. So When you select topics, something like this pops up:
Desired action will be to remove the tag from the selected topics.
Use case: As our community has never been able to use tags before, they’re just adding lots of the wrong tags to their posts. So I find myself needing to remove tags from selected posts. For now, I have to open each thread individually, edit the title, and then remove the tags, and save. NOT ideal, especially when dealing with dozens.
The feature you mentioned is for removing ALL tags. I’m pretty sure that what is being asked for is the ability to remove a specific/single tag from multiple topics, which is what I was looking for as well.
Blast from the past! I made this topic before I joined the team
My original request was to remove all tags on the selected topics. Remove a specific tag appears to have been suggested 2 years later by Anton. Regardless, thoughts @techAPJ? Could we extend the remove tags option to prompt for a specific tag alongside the option to remove all tags?
