In a support thread titled ‘Can’t add more tags to a topic, and not all are shown in the dropdown?’, Airw0lf reports issues adding tags to certain topics despite tagging being enabled (up to 5 tags per topic) and no topics reaching the limit. merefield suggests checking tag settings at /admin/site_settings/category/tags, but Airw0lf confirms settings are correct. Lhc_fl mentions a related issue where some tags mysteriously disappear from dropdowns, though Airw0lf notes they currently have fewer than 10 tags. merefield cannot reproduce the issue. Lhc_fl shares a screenshot showing fewer tags in the dropdown than expected, prompting Airw0lf to suggest opening a separate topic. Lhc_fl clarifies the confusion, and Airw0lf explains their issue differs — tags are visible globally but missing when editing specific topics. Airw0lf speculates language settings might interfere, but ultimately solves the issue: a category-level tag restriction was blocking additional tags on all topics within that category.
I’m playing around with tagging; including reading the docs on this topic.
But it still looks somewhat confusing.
One of the biggest annoyance is that there are topics which don’t allow adding more tags. In addition, not all tags are shown when trying to add a one.
Tagging is enabled (up to 5 tags per topic) and users are allowed to add and create tags. In addition, I don’t have tags grouped in any way.
Not sure of a theme may or may not influence this. But currently we have “FKB Pro” enabled. Users are not allowed to select anything else.
By the way, I have encountered a strange problem before. There were some tags that mysteriously disappeard. They were visible on topics already tagged with them, but they did’t show up in the list of tags in any way. I’ve searched many ways but it happens completely randomly, so I didn’t report this bug(?)
Attached is a picture. It can be clearly seen that there are somehow fewer tags on the left than on the right. I swear the tags inside this tag group have absolutely no special visibility permissions set.
Reason for the suggestion is that I have all tags visible when clicking “All tags” in the left site-bar. Which looks like a different behavior compared to what you are talking about.
It is just that on some topics (not all!), tags are missing when I try to add an existing tag (which is shown in the list when clicking “All tags”).
@merefield - thinking out loud:
Could it be related to language settings?
Meaning a tag created with the language settings in Dutch doesn’t show when switching to English (and v.v.)?
In addition, a topic created with the language settings in English doesn’t allow adding tags that have already have the same word in Dutch.
The problem was related to one of the main categories with a limit of 1 specific tag.
Which was then blocking for adding other tags to all topics in this category.
