Create tags outside of new post

Contribute Feature

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Users discuss the ability to create tags outside of new post creation in Discourse. balboah asks if tags can be created without tagging a post, noting that synonyms require existing tags. IAmGav confirms tags can be created via the /tags page, explaining tag groups can be created and managed, even restricted to staff. balboah finds synonyms don’t behave as expected — added synonyms like #windows and #linux for #desktop disappear and don’t link search results. Bathinda confirms no direct tag creation UI outside the compose window, questioning if a tag group is mandatory. codinghorror supports adding tag creation to the tag description page, tagging @neil. jordan.vidrine highlights the inconvenience for the Discourse Category Experts plugin, which requires pre-existing tags — forcing a three-step workaround. JammyDodger notes tag creation is now possible on the tag synonym page, suggesting separate requests for other pages. awesomerobot confirms tag creation on the tags page is coming soon, linking to the announcement and encouraging new topics for further requests.

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Are you able to create tags without also creating a new post / tagging a post?
Since synonyms list seems to require the synonym to also be a tag, this would be useful.

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How to add multiple tags up front
You can now create new tags on the /tags page
Tags panel needs "Add New Tag" option
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Yes you are able

discoursedomain/tags

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I only see “upload CSV”. Is this the only way to create tags outside of posts?

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The first option, you create a group and then you can add your tags

you group your tags.

even can set that only staff can use a group of tags

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Thanks, I suppose a group makes sense for synonyms :slight_smile:
Although synonyms doesn’t seem to work as I expected. After adding tags like windows and linux being synonyms for desktop, they disappear. Also searching #windows doesn’t show posts tagged with #desktop

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There is no option to create new tags, i.e. outside new post creation box.

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Do I necessarily need to create a tag-group to create a new tag outside the compose (new msg) window?

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It’s a reasonable idea.. if we’re adding tag descriptions, perhaps we should add the ability to create a tag from this page as well, cc @neil

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Yes! I am encountering this issue right now.

For the Discourse Category Experts plugin, you can specify certain tags to be added to posts if topics in that category contain a reply from someone in the group you specify.

The thing is, you can only choose created tags, which means I’d need to:

  1. add the tag to a post
  2. remove the tag from a post
  3. navigate back to the category settings and add that tag to the category experts setting within it

Super cumbersome!

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I think this Contribute > Feature request was to be able to create tags from the tag synonym page (which you can now do :partying_face:).

It may be worth splitting this off into a new category-experts Contribute > Feature request if you’d like tag creation on another page.

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This will be available soon! Please create new topics for other related requests.

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