# Support for tag aliases?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-tag-aliases/70998
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 29, 2017, 6:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-tag-aliases/70998 "2017-09-29T06:48:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Flow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Flow)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 6:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-tag-aliases/70998/1 "2017-09-29T06:48:03Z")
I was surprised that discourse 1.8.7 apparently has no support for **tag aliases** (akin to stackexchange). I first though that I could achieve something similar with _tag groups_, but that is not the case. I would really like a way to define a set of aliases for a given tag.
Tags seem to be a second class citizen currently, e.g. there is no ‘Tag’ in the top menu (Unread, Top, Categories). I wonder why? Tags are an excellent addition besides categories to get order into a forum. But only if tag aliases are supported.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 8:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-tag-aliases/70998/2 "2017-09-29T08:26:41Z")
It’s a valid feature request, it just hasn’t been requested much. Tags are not as important in Discourse as they are in SO because we have categories. The majority of forum communities don’t need tags.
Tag aliases would be nice, but it’s probably not gonna happen unless someone from the community develops it or one of our customers require it.
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### Author:  [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-tag-aliases/70998/3 "2017-11-09T06:34:25Z")
For what is worth, tags aliases would be useful for multilingual communities, where you could define a tag in the default language and then create translations as aliases to the main tag.
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### Author:  [@Flow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Flow)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-tag-aliases/70998/4 "2019-04-17T07:39:56Z")
It appears that support for tag aliases is being worked on and is currently scheduled for the 2.4 release:
- [Discourse Version 2.4](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-2-4/108194)
- [Merging tags - Tag Synonyms](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-tags-tag-synonyms/81869)
🎆
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### Author:  [@xuhdev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xuhdev)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-tag-aliases/70998/5 "2024-06-11T00:41:23Z")
For anyone who steps upon here, the instructions for adding tag synonyms is available at
> [@Merging tags - Tag Synonyms](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-tags-tag-synonyms/81869/16):
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> This feature made it into the [latest beta release](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-4-0-beta8-release-notes/135183), so please upgrade and give it a try. Creating synonyms and merging tags is done in the same place. If you wanted to merge the “js” and “javascript” tags, and choose “javascript” as the base tag, then go to the javascript tag’s page (/tags/javascript). Once “js” is added as a synonym, its topics will show as tagged with “javascript”. In search and filters, js will show up and direct people to javascript instead. Tagging topics will j…