# Deepening tag structure?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/deepening-tag-structure/279165>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** tags\
**Created:** [September 15, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deepening-tag-structure/279165 "2023-09-15T15:18:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deepening-tag-structure/279165/4 "2023-09-18T20:24:42Z")

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I agree managing tags can get confusing. I don’t know if this is on the roadmap, but I’ve been wondering if some AI functionality could be added to tags. For example, to help users select appropriate tags.

There are a couple of settings that _might_ help:

> [@Renato\_Mendes](#):
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> there should be a way of categorizing groups of tags:

Discourse allows you to create tag groups:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/e/8/8e8de2c963cd30fd8738b2067f8b358f70b0effb.png)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/3/d/c3dbafaa14a76dfab7929045f2233ddec7b52fc7.png)

By default, this doesn’t do anything to improve the site’s `/tags` page. To fix that, enable the `tags listed by group` site setting. With that setting enabled, this:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/6/d/06d84dd8d5b36bd9247b0ea2caf97afd8ab07287.png)

is cleaned up to look like this (I’ve created Authors and Categories tag groups for this test):

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/5/4/65457960a3dca694ec1ca95dce3bad6935c61284.png)

Users aren’t given an option to add tags they create to a tag group, but staff members can add them to groups from a tag’s page. For example:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/2/a/82a887389cb1b71d9c72f6e29c16439c5d7db6c7.png)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/1/0/2103a536880d178433469410ea47514b1a880986.png)

The text in the above screenshot says “To add restrictions,” but tag groups can also be used to just keep a site’s tags organized. This would also allow you to add restrictions at a later time if you wished. As a bad example, you could have a “books” category that required a tag from both the “authors” and the “categories” tag groups.

> [@Renato\_Mendes](#):
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> there’s no way of deciding the order in which the groups of tags are shown, both on the main tags page and on the editing-groups-of-tags page (they are shown only alphabetically).

The ordering options are limited. By default tags are ordered by popularity, but you can override this by enabling the `tags sort alphabetically` site setting. Users can also switch between alphabetical and popularity ordering on the tags page.

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