# Questions about editor, style guide and tags
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-editor-style-guide-and-tags/282239
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 14, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-editor-style-guide-and-tags/282239 "2023-10-14T13:45:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@wizible](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wizible)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-editor-style-guide-and-tags/282239/1 "2023-10-14T13:45:01Z")
I hope someone can answer the following three questions for me.
1.) Editor
I have read a lot here in the forum but could not find an answer. Is there a way to change the editor? My target group is not very tech-savvy and rather knows the typical WYSIWYG editors. Is there any way to change it?
2.) Tags
How useful are tags for users and search engines?
I have been working with WordPress for many years and there tags are not really useful. They generate a lot of pages and very rarely are tags used by users.
What is the situation with Discourse? Has anyone had a good experience here?
I would like to make creating posts as easy as possible and only show users the tags feature when it really makes sense. Otherwise, I’d rather leave it out.
3.) Style Guide
In the admin panel under plugins I found the plugin “Style Guide”.
What can be done with it? When I click on Settings, I only have two checkboxes.
What is this plugin for?
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-editor-style-guide-and-tags/282239/2 "2023-10-14T15:31:32Z")
1. I don’t think there is a current WYSIWIG editor plug in that is working. @spirobel was working on one for while but I don’t think it is currently functional:
> [@Discourse Basic Editor](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-basic-editor-beginner-friendly-composer/159431):
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> Hi, I am working on a plugin at the moment that replaces the standard editor with a wysiwg editor. I think its easier for beginner users like myself and others. Here is a short video on how it works so far and what my plans are: [[Discourse.org - A more user friendly editor for beginners] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkb-igD7j7k) I think it will be finished in the next few months ( depending on my motivation smiley ) I would be interested if others are interested in using this as well. Thaaaanks slightly_smiling_face P…
1. Tags usage will depend on a number of factors such as forum purpose, user needs, content management, subject variety, etc. I don’t have them enabled on my hosted forum because they don’t really suit that particular forum’s purpose or user base. You can always enable and configure them later when you have your forum setup and running with content you need to organize. These might help:
> **[It’s Time We Talked About Tags](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/10/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/)**
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> Consider the typical sections of a daily newspaper: Arts, Sports, Business, Travel, Local, and World. Any given article belongs to just one of those sections, and the content in each section is quite different, such that some people, for example, may...
> [@Admin guide to tags in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-guide-to-tags-in-discourse/121041):
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> bookmark This guide explains how Discourse tags work, how to configure tag settings, and how to manage tags across your site. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Managing tags in Discourse Tags in Discourse provide a powerful way to organize and filter content beyond categories. This guide covers everything administrators need to know about configuring and managing tags. Summary Configure tag settings in your admin panel Create, manage, and bulk modify tags Set up …
1. The styleguide is simply a handy reference for making custom CSS related changes to elements on your forum or understanding what customizable variables and elements exist.
If you are looking for programming tips in Discourse, [you can start here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-to-learn-how-to-program-for-discourse/264925/2) 🙂
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### Author:  [@wizible](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wizible)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-editor-style-guide-and-tags/282239/3 "2023-10-14T15:35:03Z")
Thank you very much! You are a great help to me. All questions answered 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-editor-style-guide-and-tags/282239/4 "2023-10-14T15:49:08Z")
You’re welcome. I am glad that helped. Good luck! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-editor-style-guide-and-tags/282239/5 "2023-10-14T20:44:10Z")
> [@wizible](#):
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> with WordPress for many years and there tags are not really useful
Yes those are. But WordPress community, and WordPress itself, shares a long history misusing tags heavily. And that’s why the big audience never learned use tags — but that blame goes to admins (and to social media where tags are raped totally).
But my non-tech users learned to use tags very easily and quick and now they just love those small buggers.
But tagging must (ok, should…) be planned and not use tags with only one topic. For that need we have search.