Tags (also called page tags) are words and phrases that, in theory, help your users find the content they are looking for easier. Tags are created for each page and then all of the tags can be displayed in almost any location of your wiki except nav:top.1
Default Tags
A new wiki is started with no tags whatsoever. However, a place is reserved to display the tags you will create in nav:side. To find this area, look at your side bar. The area is marked "Page Tags". Below that is the text
"It seems you have no tags attached to pages. To attach a tag simply click on the tags button at the bottom of any page.".
When you create your first tags, this message will disappear and automatically be replaced by whatever tags you create.
Tag Size and Color
Tag Size and color is determined by the TagCloud module and must be changed wherever it is used. You cannot change the tag size and color in the theme. Having a universal place to change the tag size and color would be useful an we are unsure if this is in development for wikidot 2.0
Adding Tags to a Page
- Click on the tags button at the bottom of the page.
- Enter your tags, separated by spaces.
- Click the save tags button.
Multi-Word Tags
All tags must be one unit. If you want to use tags that are 2 or more words you can either smush them or use a hyphen.
Smushing Tags
Smushing tags is when you just put the words together without spaces :
- flatfrog
Tags With a Hyphen
You can use a hyphen to separate words in tags so they are easier to read :
- flat-frog
Tag Limits
There is no current way to select two tags at once.
All of the tags assigned to a page must be a total of 70 characters or less, including spaces.
Removing Tags from a Page
To remove a tag from a page :
- Click on the [tags] button at the bottom of the page.
- Erase the tag
- Click [save tags]
Tag Modules
Wikidot has a couple of modules that can display tags and list pages by tag.
TagCloud Module
Page tags are displayed using the TagCloud module. You can place the TagCloud module anywhere, but we recommend that you not put it in the top menu bar (nav:top.
When a new wiki is created, the TagCloud module is placed on three pages : the side bar menu (nav:side), system:page-tags, and system:page-tags-list.
PagesByTag Module
The PagesByTag module lists pages by tags.
Tag Permissions
There are no separate tag permissions. Anyone able to edit a page will also be able to add, change, and delete tags with no record of the change.
Related Pages
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