Tags and Privacy

  • Hi – I have a question about tags. Can tags be seen by the public in the same sense that media files can be found and seen? I am not listing them on posts, but they do exist associated with posts. Can they be found and looked at somehow by the public?

    Thanks.

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  • Hi @eac2015 !

    By default, they can be seen by the public in several ways:

    1. Tag Archive Pages

    Each tag in WordPress has an archive page that lists all posts associated with that tag. These pages are accessible through URLs structured like this: https://yourdomain.com/tag/tag-name/. You would need to disable these pages.

    2. Tag Listings in Themes

    Some WordPress themes automatically display tags on posts. Even if you are not actively listing them, certain themes or plugins might show tags in meta information of posts, such as below the post content or in the sidebar. You would need to audit all of your templates and any templates that display the tags.

    3. Search Engine Indexing

    If search engines have indexed your tag archive pages, users can potentially find these pages through search engine results. You would need to modify your SEO settings (including the robots.txt file) to prevent the search engines from indexing the tag archive pages.

    Thread Starter EAC2015

    (@eac2015)

    Thank you Olga. I will get with my coder to help me with this. Could you possibly show me an example of a tag archive page? I can’t seem to bring it up on my site. I must have a syntax problem.

    Thread Starter EAC2015

    (@eac2015)

    Would the tags be hidden if my blog is disabled with a plugin that disables my whole blog? I am using the plugin Disable Blog. What I am doing is making a spreadsheet/Tablepress table using output from the tags, but then hiding everything associated with the blog. The only thing people will see is the Tablepress Table of the info, which has already been exported from the blog. Acutally, it looks like it hides the tags as well as posts etc.

    Maybe I solved my own problem. The plugin seems to disable tags and things too! If you have any other thoughts I would love to hear them. Thank you.

    Thank you Olga. I will get with my coder to help me with this. Could you possibly show me an example of a tag archive page? I can’t seem to bring it up on my site. I must have a syntax problem.

    By default, the tag archive pages are located at urls such as yourpage.com/tag/tag-name.

    From the plugin description, it seems that you have disabled all display of tags, unless you have custom post types that support the built-in?category?and/or?post_tag?taxonomies.

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