# Tag Intersection Navigator

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-intersection-navigator/368815
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [June 4, 2025, 9:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-intersection-navigator/368815 "2025-06-04T09:20:40Z")
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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2025, 9:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-intersection-navigator/368815/1 "2025-06-04T09:20:40Z")

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| ℹ | **Summary** | A Discourse plugin that extends the Tag Intersections interface to provide an improved experience for navigating combinations of tags |
| 🛠 | **Repository Link** | [https://github.com/merefield/discourse-tag-intersection-navigator](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-tag-intersection-navigator) |
| 📖 | **Install Guide** | [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157) |
| ❤ | **Sponsorship** | Please consider becoming an ongoing [sponsor of my open source work](https://github.com/sponsors/merefield) at a level that suits your or your organisation’s resources and needs to ensure this plugin gets the maintenance it deserves and continues to work for your site in the future. |

Enjoying this plugin? Please ⭐ it on [GitHub](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-tag-intersection-navigator)! 🙏

 ![A string of pastel-colored tags is arranged diagonally, featuring colors yellow, light pink, and teal. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/2/f/d2f2faa5d90825dd293147de7d6e7fbbb6be5960.jpeg)

### Features

Enhances the existing Tag Intersections capability to:

- Allow it to be empty or used with just one tag
  - This makes for a more user friendly and flexible user experience, allowing you to drill in and out of combinations of tags

- Support for different filters instead of just Latest.
- Provide a way to make it the default on your desktop Homepage
- Supported by [Bars](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bars-a-sidebar-framework/298216)

### Important

⚠ you must _not_ use the word “everything” as a tag on your instance. ⚠

### Settings

There are just four settings:

- to enable the plugin
- determine which string is used to describe “everything” in the routing - I advise you don’t change this, but you can experiment with alternative options. You _must_ avoid using the same string as a tag
- to make the interface the Homepage for desktop (default OFF)
- include a community link in sidebar/header dropdown (default ON)

### Limitations/A Roadmap?

**Hire me or submit a PR to add the following:**

- ~~Like core intersections, does not yet work with a combo of Category - but this continues to fall back to the Category/Tag interface~~ ✅
- Sub-categories are not yet supported
- There are no Topic counts on the navigation tabs and their  
visibility/availability is presently not determined by availability of the corresponding topic list population count.
- Respect availability/ordering of filter settings.
- The interface is not offered on mobile due to lack of real-estate.

### Credits

Great thanks to its sponsor, @pensarfrentealtiempo 🙏

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