Cms: Tag management

[angrybrad]

Created by: Brandon Kelly ([email protected]) on 2015/03/06 03:54:45 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 81

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It would be nice if there was a place in the CP where we could manage all of the existing tags.

[angrybrad]

> Posted by Alex Woodman ([email protected]) on 2016/10/26 20:02:32 +0000

This needs to be part of core! Doesn't seem difficult to implement either, and it seems like an awfully common issue.

[angrybrad]

> Posted by Elliot Lewis ([email protected]) on 2016/03/17 09:23:34 +0000

Bob Olde Hampsink plugin is perfect. Buy him a few cocktail and roll it in!

[angrybrad]

> Posted by Ben Parizek ([email protected]) on 2015/03/12 23:19:32 +0000

Alternatively, maybe Tags should just become a plugin and not part of Core. It feels like it hasn't been given much love right now.

[angrybrad]

> Posted by Rob ([email protected]) on 2015/07/19 22:22:24 +0000

I'd go further and say we need more control over tags (similar to user relations and blocks "limit" box) : http://bit.ly/1VqvlIJ

[angrybrad]

> Posted by Bob Olde Hampsink ([email protected]) on 2015/04/30 06:39:01 +0000

As long as this isn't part of Craft's core (yet), there is a Tag Manager plugin here https://github.com/boboldehampsink/tagmanager

[whoisgina]

Would love to see this become part of core! For now we're going to try to get Tag Manager to work with Craft 3. Has anyone had any luck with that?

[brandonkelly]

@whoisgina I don’t think @boboldehampsink has ported it to Craft 3 yet (not listed on https://github.com/craftcms/plugins). Maybe he’s hoping we’ll add it to Craft ourselves 🙃

[mattandrews]

I'd love to see this happen – it's the only missing feature in Craft for my usecase. The plugin above is deprecated now so currently the only way I can edit a tag (which we're using as "authors" for a blogpost entry type) is to find a blog written by that author, and double click their name in the tag list.

[khalwat]

I'm hoping you'll add it to Craft yourselves, FWIW 🙃

[brandonkelly]

We’re going to add it in a 3.x release, but not sure exactly when yet.

[ipetrov87]

I hope it will be soon.

[brandonkelly]

Ether Creative just released a new tag management plugin: https://github.com/ethercreative/tags

Should work well while you wait for a built-in solution.

[kmgdevelopment]

Ether's plugin hasn't been updated in 6 months and issues go unanswered.

Tag management in Core would very much be appreciated.

[ryanpcmcquen]

Is this being worked on?

[brandonkelly]

No, the plan is to do away with Tags and Categories entirely, merging those concepts with Entries (and giving Entires field all the same features that Tags and Categories fields have currently). Plus make the Entries index page more customizable so you can still present certain sections as “categories” or “tags” if you want.

[kmgdevelopment]

I'm fine with that. Been using Categories to manage tags for a while and it's been working good, and honestly like Brandon said Categories are basically just channel-type sections anyway with slight UI differences.

[vnali]

No, the plan is to do away with Tags and Categories entirely, merging those concepts with Entries (and giving Entires field all the same features that Tags and Categories fields have currently). Plus make the Entries index page more customizable so you can still present certain sections as “categories” or “tags” if you want.

@brandonkelly
so in future isn't it possible to add a tag field to custom elements via field layout for custom plugins :( ?
IMHO maybe checkbox or radio field provide kind of same functionality, but tag provide far better UI.

[brandonkelly]

Giving Entries fields the ability have similar UIs as Categories and Tags fields is the main thing I meant by that.

[vnali]

@brandonkelly , so if i use tag field in a custom element type to label those custom elements -and this custom element type is not about entries at all-, can i do the same thing and tag my custom elements with entries field in future?

[brandonkelly]

@vnali Yes, there won’t be any authoring feature regressions with this change.

[Friksel]

@brandonkelly any news on this? Are these plans for v3.x or v4.x? And will there be a way to create new tags directly from within the field like we can now?

[brandonkelly]

@Friksel We’ve started planning it out a bit, but no news yet. Yes, part of the plan will be to add new UI modes to Entries fields, so they can behave like Tags/Categories fields do currently.