No… Discourse doesn’t store descriptions for tags, only categories, so it wouldn’t be possible with this component.
It would be possible to modify the tag banner component to add descriptions in a theme setting… but if you plan on having more than a couple dozen tags it would start to become unwieldy, so it’s not a great option.
The best path would be to create a plugin that adds a description functionality to tags… though that would be significantly more complex.
Doesn’t this component pull text from the 1st paragraph of the 1st post in the category if its not set in the category’s settings? The default ‘about’ one. Thats always how i use it.
What about a plugin which auto-creates a default ‘about’ page for each tag-page. Would it be a possible, or a good path to go down, to create that and then point your plugin at that post if its set to work on tag-pages?
Yes, but Discourse pulls that text out of the post and I sets it as the category description… so most of the work is already done, I just reused it here.
It might be possible to get the oldest topic with a specific tag and use that as the description so the functionality is similar? I’ll have to look into it some more.