Title: Better tagging idea
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Better tagging idea

 *  [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/better-tagging-idea/)
 * So .. I have something like 17000 tags on my site and always growing.
 * Most of them are one-offs, some are spelling errors, all kinds of junk in there.
 * What if there were a safety feature that prevented a tag page from being generated
   unless a tag was used at least once? Or only if a tag description was entered?
 * Wouldn’t that save a lot of server churn and useless pages showing up in sitemaps
   etc…?
 * Thoughts?

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 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/better-tagging-idea/#post-3681597)
 * and by “at least once” what I really meant was “at least twice” … the idea is
   to not publish the one-offs … dunno why I said it that way.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/better-tagging-idea/#post-3681607)
 * But surely the first time you use any new tag, it will be a “one off” until you
   use it again. So how do you propose to handle that?
 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/better-tagging-idea/#post-3681620)
 * I dunno…. i guess in an ideal world you’d have an over-ride feature if you *really*
   wanted the tag page for a one-off. But generally speaking, doesn’t seem useful
   to have all that stuff generated for a single-use tag.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/better-tagging-idea/#post-3681640)
 * > Most of them are one-offs, some are spelling errors, all kinds of junk in there.
 * That’s when I go back, reorganize my tags, and move posts around to fix it 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/better-tagging-idea/#post-3681641)
 * Haha… well of course I do, but it’s a pretty hard task with dozens of writers
   and posts a day
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/better-tagging-idea/#post-3681642)
 * And now you have given us more information that is invaluable! See, if it’s just
   you running a site, then you can learn from your mistakes pretty easily. But 
   when you manage a site with many writers (and god help me, mine make me cry a
   little some days), you need to manage them:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/manage-tags-capability/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/manage-tags-capability/)
 * Now your non-admins can’t make NEW tags, just you admins 😀 BEER!
 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/better-tagging-idea/#post-3681655)
 * Now that’s potentially useful… thanks!

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 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/better-tagging-idea/#post-3681655)
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