Title: Adding (user-specified) tag support to WordPress
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Adding (user-specified) tag support to WordPress

 *  [wahgnube](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wahgnube/)
 * (@wahgnube)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-user-specified-tag-support-to-wordpress/)
 * I have an [old journal](http://emphaticallystatic.org/) which is nearing its 
   thousandth post. Things were rather old-school at the time I started it and it
   has grown somewhat organically, so I didn’t take the trouble to neatly classify
   my posts into categories.
 * As you can imagine, this makes sorting and searching through a few years worth
   of posts somewhat impossible. Since I am not too keen on going back and manually
   creating categories for (and categorising) every single post so far, I thought
   I’d be sneaky and pass the work onto my audience.
 * I am looking for something very similar to the tag functionality right here on
   this support forum, or (in pictures) how they’ve implemented it over at [slashdot](http://slashdot.org/):
 * 1. Every post [lists popular user-specified tags](http://emphaticallystatic.org/blogimages/slashdot-tag-list.png).
   
   2. User clicks that small triangle that [brings up a form](http://emphaticallystatic.org/blogimages/slashdot-tag-add.png)
   to add what they want. 3. They [add their new tag](http://emphaticallystatic.org/blogimages/slashdot-tag-added.png)
   or intensify what’s already there. 4. Once the number of repeats crosses a threshold,
   the tag joins the list of popular tags and shows up on the page.
 * All I need is a realistic estimation of:
    1. How much support WordPress 2.x has“
   inherently” for tags. Either “inherently,” or through suitable, well thought 
   out plug-ins? 2. How much work do you think it would be to pull off the implementation
   I describe using this support? Or if it already exists, where can I study/fetch
   it from? 3. How much work do you think it would be to incorporate this new information
   into WordPress’ search function, so it suitably uses it?
 * Thank you for your time. And if someone else is looking for something like this
   as well (and it doesn’t exist), we can collaborate on an implementation if you’re
   keen on it too.

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 *  Thread Starter [wahgnube](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wahgnube/)
 * (@wahgnube)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-user-specified-tag-support-to-wordpress/#post-399738)
 * Anyone?

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## Tags

 * [tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tags/)
 * [user-defined](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user-defined/)

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 * Last reply from: [wahgnube](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wahgnube/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-user-specified-tag-support-to-wordpress/#post-399738)
 * Status: not resolved

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