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Tags: New or Edit

Description

Used to add or edit tags which can be used to display content by tag name on your Joomla! website.

Common Elements

Some aspects of this page are covered in separate Help articles:

How to Access

  • Select Components → Tags in the Administrator menu. Then
    • Select the 'New' button in the Toolbar to create a new Tag.
    • Select a Tags's Title from the Title column of the list to edit an existing tag.

Screenshot

tags edit tag details tab

Form Fields

  • Title The Name of this item. This field is required.
  • Alias The internal name of the item. Normally, you can leave this blank and Joomla will fill in a default value Title in lower case and with dashes instead of spaces.

Tag Details Tab

  • Description State the purpose of this tag.

Tag Details Sidebar

  • Parent The item (category, menu item, and so on) that is the parent of the item being edited.
  • Status The published status of the item.
  • Access The viewing Access Level for this item.
  • Language Item language.
  • Note This is normally for the site administrator's use (for example, to document information about this item) and does not show in the Frontend of the site.
  • Version Note Optional field to identify this version of the item in the item's Version History window.

Options Tab

tags edit tag options tab

Options Panel

  • Layout Use a layout from the supplied component view or overrides in the templates.
  • CSS Class for tag link Add specific CSS classes for the tag link. If empty label label-info will be added by the default tag layout.

Images Panels

  • Teaser Image The image that will be displayed as part of the list.
  • Float Float attribute for the image.
  • Alt Alt text for the image.
  • Caption The caption for the image.
  • Full Image An image that will be displayed in the single tag view.

Publishing Tab

tags edit tag publishing tab

  • Created Date Date the item(Article, Category, Weblink, etc.) was created.
  • Created By Name of the Joomla User who created this item. This will default to the currently logged-in user. If you want to change this to a different user, click the Select User button to select a different user.
  • Created by Alias This optional field allows you to enter in an alias for this Author for this Article. This allows you to display a different Author name for this Article.
  • Modified Date Date of last modification.
  • Modified By Username who performed the last modification.
  • Hits The number of times an item has been viewed.
  • ID This is a unique identification number for this item assigned automatically by Joomla. It is used to identify the item internally, and you cannot change this number. When creating a new item, this field displays "0" until you save the new entry, at which point a new ID is assigned to it.
  • Meta Description An optional paragraph to be used as the description of the page in the HTML output. This will generally display in the results of search engines. If entered, this creates an HTML meta element with a name attribute of 'description' and a content attribute equal to the entered text.
  • Keywords Optional entry for keywords. Must be entered separated by commas (for example, "cats, dogs, pets") and may be entered in upper or lower case. (For example, "CATS" will match "cats" or "Cats"). Keywords can be used in several ways:
    1. To help Search Engines and other systems classify the content of the Article.
    2. In combination with Banner tags, to display specific Banners based on the Article content. For example, say you have one Banner with an ad for dog products and another Banner for cat products. You can have your dog Banner display when a User is viewing a dog-related Article and your cat Banner display for a cat-related Article. To do this, you would:
      • Add the keywords "dog" and "cat" to the appropriate Articles.
      • Add the Tags "dog" and "cat" to the appropriate Banners in Banners: Edit.
      • Set the Banner module Parameter 'Search By Tags' to "Yes" in the Site Modules: Banners list.
    3. For articles only, in combination with the Articles - Related module, to display Articles that share at least one keyword in common. For example, if the current Article displayed has the keywords "cats, dogs, monkeys", any other Articles with at least one of these keywords will show in the 'Articles - Related' module.
  • Author Optional entry for an Author name within the metadata. If entered, this creates an HTML meta element with the name attribute of 'author' and the content attribute as entered here.
  • Robots The instructions for web 'robots' that browse to this page.
    • index, follow: Index this page and follow the links on this page.
    • noindex, follow: Do not index this page, but still follow the links on the page. For example, you might do this for a site map page where you want the links to be indexed but you don't want this page to show in search engines.
    • index, nofollow: Index this page, but do not follow any links on the page. For example, you might want to do this for an events calendar, where you want the page to show in search engines but you do not want to index each event.
    • noindex, nofollow: Do not index this page or follow any links on the page.
    • Use Global: Set in Global Configuration: Metadata Settings.