# Where is auto-tag and auto-replace?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261 "2021-03-24T03:02:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261/1 "2021-03-24T03:02:06Z")
On the dashboard it says:
But where is it? Can’t seem to find it in any of the settings.
(Perhaps it might be worth adding where these new features can be found whenever they are mentioned/included? It’s not the first time I’ve tried to find one 🤣)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 5:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261/2 "2021-03-24T05:57:59Z")
Have a look at `/admin/logs/watched_words`
@awesomerobot / @codinghorror watched words being in “logs” is massively confusing, maybe this should be in “Customize” or somewhere else.
Agree we can do a bit better with the description here.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 3:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261/3 "2021-03-26T03:52:16Z")
Yeah `Customize` makes the most sense, seems like a good move! We’ll want to go back and edit a bunch of Meta posts with the new path once it’s done…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261/4 "2021-03-26T03:54:14Z")
@techAPJ can you move this, maybe keep an alias for the old route that redirects to the new home ?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261/6 "2021-03-26T04:01:05Z")
We could have included a link for those new features too! (though we’ve limited ourselves to one link in our UI for creating feature announcements, maybe that’s too restrictive…)
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2021, 6:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261/7 "2021-04-01T06:24:19Z")
Sure, done via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/61860098d979933348dd95e144d1b9ccec1fcdd8](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/61860098d979933348dd95e144d1b9ccec1fcdd8)
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### Author:  [@k4rtik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/k4rtik)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261/8 "2021-04-02T21:55:27Z")
Unsure if there is a dedicated topic to discuss this but it looks like this feature (auto tag) doesn’t work if the word is in the title and not in the body of the OP?
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### Author:  [@ncaming215](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ncaming215)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261/11 "2021-09-21T18:10:37Z")
Question: does this only apply to new posts going forward, and not retroactively?
(Aaaaand if that’s the case, anyway to make that happen?)
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2021, 6:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261/12 "2021-09-22T06:42:17Z")
It seems to be for new topics, but this topic suggests using some admin bulk operations to achieve a similar thing:
> [@A way to trigger auto-tagging across all topics for a new watched word](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-trigger-auto-tagging-across-all-topics-for-a-new-watched-word/194769/2):
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> Hey, no worries! I’m really glad you posted this here since it highlights that I need to update this topic to include information about the new auto-tagging feature! With that said, I am not sure about your question at the moment. There are definitely ways to run commands from the rails console to accomplish something similar. See [Administrative Bulk Operations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/administrative-bulk-operations/118349#heading--11) for example. Would that work for you? If not, your best bet would be to open a #feature topic with a request to extend the auto-taggin…
Is that any use?
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### Author:  [@ncaming215](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ncaming215)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-is-auto-tag-and-auto-replace/184261/13 "2021-09-22T20:37:03Z")
> [@JammyDodger](#):
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> Is that any use?
Thanks for the reference—command line operations are probably a bit out of my league, unfortunately. I might inadvertently start world war III. I’ll keep poking around. Thanks again!