Tags in new Editor

Tag are not listed out, since sites can tend to have hundreds (if not thousands) of tags. Instead, as you being to type your tag, WordPress will make suggestions to auto-complete the tag based on your previous tags.

Yes, I realise that, but the old editor used to have a list of “most used tags” that catered for most of the posts I made and I could just click on them. Now I have to type them out each time, which leads to errors with typo’s creeping in.

It seems like a far less efficient method now.

So, I can’t even find the interface to add tags to a post. The editor doesn’t seem to have it at all anymore, but from what @luffer said there is something, somewhere. Help? Screenshot maybe?

Thanks!

You’ll find it to the right of the editor, here’s a screenshot: https://cld.wthms.co/5PqT0C

Thanks. But, that’s not what my editor looks like.

Screenshot:

https://blog.restek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/news_editor.png

Click the three vertical dots near the top right, select the Options link at the bottom of the menu that appears, and make sure that “Tags” is checked: https://cld.wthms.co/SSxC2c

I don’t have all those options… here is what I get.

Options

General

Enable Pre-publish Checks

Enable Tips
Document Panels

Featured Image

Excerpt

Discussion
Advanced Panels

Custom Fields

That’s … odd.

Do you have any categories or tags already created?

Yes. What’s interesting is I updated three WP installs today, and in at least one of the others I *do* see the categories and tags. The affected case happens to be the one I looked at first, so I took its behavior to be “normal” for the new version.

I might try reinstalling the update on the problem child.

Yeah, try downloading WordPress again, access your server via SFTP or FTP, or a file manager in your hosting account’s control panel (consult your hosting provider’s documentation for specifics on these), and delete then replace your copies of everything on the server except the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory with fresh copies from the download. This will effectively replace all of your core files without damaging your content and settings.

Some uploaders tend to be unreliable when overwriting files, so don’t forget to delete the original files before replacing them.

Thank you. Reinstalling didn’t actually fix it, but some combination of fixing file perms and installing the classic editor plugin did the trick.

Appreciate all the help.

I have to agree with luffer, please bring back “most used tags”, for those of us without perfect memories it helps keep our posting and the usefulness of tags functional and organized. Removing it was a bad call in the name of visual efficiency, at the expense of functional efficiency.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by salgoodsam.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by salgoodsam.

Kudos for salgoodsam’s reply. I use tags more like flexible categories now it gets under my skin to having to refer back to what my tags were every time I finish a blog post.

Unfortunately this topic got derailed by @krauch and the people who develop WordPress have just ignored the issue. Pretty much what I’ve become accustomed to with WordPress now, it’s sad, but I just give up trying.

I too ran into this issue just today. The tag interface is severely degraded. Please return the old functionality.