# 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")
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### Author: ![xuhdev](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xuhdev/32/382503_2.png) [@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")

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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…

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