# How do I tag a post?

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 13, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-tag-a-post/54193 "2016-12-13T19:52:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-tag-a-post/54193/4 "2016-12-13T20:46:14Z")

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No worries. What you are asking is a very open-ended question. Tags are used for different purposes on different sites, so more details would be useful. On my primary site (Stonehearth), tag use is restricted to staff only, and we use them to help track bug reports. For example, if a bug is reported from the alpha 12 develop 3456 build regarding the pathfinder, we apply the `a12dev3456` tag and the `pathfinding` tag. The tags are really only useful for site staff in our case, so this isn’t perhaps the best example. I know other sites use tags as a “second” sub-category level. I believe there is a car forum hosted by Discourse, and I think they have categories by car type, with sub-categories for the manufacturer. Then they use tags for specific care models.

If you can share some details about what your site is and what you are looking to use tags to accomplish I can try and answer much more specifically.

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