# Sharing tags between WordPress posts and their Discourse topics
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-tags-between-wordpress-posts-and-their-discourse-topics/77022
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** wordpress
**Created:** [December 31, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-tags-between-wordpress-posts-and-their-discourse-topics/77022 "2017-12-31T15:50:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-tags-between-wordpress-posts-and-their-discourse-topics/77022/1 "2017-12-31T15:50:03Z")
A feature request for the WordPress Discourse plugin:
Unless I have missed something (and I searched), currently there is no relation between the tags used in a WordPress post and the tags of the Discourse topic created automatically.
Wouldn’t it be nice to see the tags of a WP post replicated in its related Discourse topic? For this, existing tags would be used when available, otherwise new tags would be created on the fly.
Discourse has a limit of 5 tags (?) that WordPress does not have. That’s fine. If the WP post has more than 5 topics, Discourse would only take five. Any five would be ok.
(Bonus)
If more precision is needed to choose the 5 tags, these criteria could be applied:
- Existing tags win over new tags.
- If there are still more than 5 candidates, then alphabetical sorting would be applied.
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### Author:  [@philh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/philh)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-tags-between-wordpress-posts-and-their-discourse-topics/77022/2 "2017-12-31T17:47:28Z")
For me, adding tags on the fly is overkill. Maintaining consistency in tag usage between WP and Discourse would help keep things organized.
Perhaps @simon can weigh in on adding tag support to [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse). [WP Discourse 1.4.0 Release - #13 by philh](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-1-4-0-release/65283/13)
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### Author:  [@jtbayly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jtbayly)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-tags-between-wordpress-posts-and-their-discourse-topics/77022/3 "2018-04-14T18:38:05Z")
I also think carrying the tags over to Discourse makes a lot of sense.
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### Author:  [@Nick\_Chomey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nick_Chomey)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-tags-between-wordpress-posts-and-their-discourse-topics/77022/4 "2021-11-04T02:14:45Z")
Agreed. I’d love to see the plugin be able to convert WP tags into Discourse Tags. It seems like a very intuitive thing.