# Is there a way to force a tag into a topic in a specific category without the user having to add it?

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**Created:** [March 28, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-force-a-tag-into-a-topic-in-a-specific-category-without-the-user-having-to-add-it/259770 "2023-03-28T22:20:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-force-a-tag-into-a-topic-in-a-specific-category-without-the-user-having-to-add-it/259770/4 "2023-03-29T18:11:51Z")

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> [@MikeNolan](#):
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> I’d actually rather have a separate field in a post that says ‘this is a recipe, format accordingly’, so that the tags can be used for other more user-facing purposes,

You could use a TopicCustomField in a plugin, but a staff-only tag set, or one enforced for all users would be easier to maintain. Also, could you just make a set of categories be recipes, so you could just apply that formatting to the whole category? That seems like the easiest solution to “which topics are recipes”.

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