Hi all, I’m very confused. Currently trying to set up Discourse to migrate my large community from Facebook. I’ve been thinking about how I’ll structure it through categories, and it was mentioned to me that tags can help for that too. As I understand, tags in Discourse are quite “category-like” (at…

Hi @stephtara I moved your question to a new topic, because the answer will be useful to others and then we can keep the related UX topic scoped to the implementation details. Tags are definitely an area that could be with some polish, so I encourage you to add your vote to the relevant feature re…

[image] chapoi: Discourse is really great, once it’s all setup! I hope you’ll hang in there and we’ll do our best to help :wink: I have no doubt about that and I will, but as I have limited energy (recovering from bad accident) I’m trying to see how I can make things as simple as possible fo…

[image] chapoi: Have you seen this dropdown on the categories view: [CleanShot 2025-12-09 at 17.28.16@2x] Make sure fixed category positions is enabled so you can see the option to reorder them. By default it is not enabled.

[image] tobiaseigen: Make sure fixed category positions is enabled so you can see the option to reorder them. And Stephanie, here’s where to find that site setting… [image]

[image] chapoi: Have you seen this dropdown on the categories view: Yes, seen, but it’s quite cumbersome when I have 8-12 categories to create, color, organise, describe, hierarchise, and each one influences the others so I keep going back and forth between panels which each contain just a sm…

[image] chapoi: To upload a .csv file to add them in bulk Ok, having to create a csv feels like quite a bit of overhead! I don’t have a final list of my tags, just like categories. So it looks I need to « design » the structure of my community outside of discourse, and once I am set on my ca…

I hope I’m not coming across as fussy, but I’m thinking that if I get stuck/discouraged with this bit, many others certainly will too…

[image] stephtara: So it looks I need to « design » the structure of my community outside of discourse Even being a Discourse expert, I’ve always gone through this step. Planning is done outside Discourse, this makes things easier. [image] stephtara: I’m thinking that if I get stuck/disc…

This is great feedback! I have struggled with this as well, especially with the tags. I recall when I was product manager for the staff experience team we planned eventually to create an admin section to more intuitively manage categories and tags. Not sure if and when that will happen. Also going …

[image] Canapin: Even being a Discourse expert, I’ve always gone through this step. Planning is done outside Discourse, this makes things easier. This is super precious insight. Thankfully I’m still « early » in my process to not have banged my head against too many walls! I’ll do that too, t…

How to add multiple tags up front

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Moin December 9, 2025, 6:56pm 15

You can do almost everything in a plugin. It might even be possible to build something as a Customization > Theme component .

Last year, I added the overviews for the permissions of related categories as a component.

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How to add multiple tags up front

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