Title: Delete certain tags
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Delete certain tags

 *  Resolved [jrothra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrothra/)
 * (@jrothra)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-certain-tags/)
 * URL in question: [http://www.johnrothra.com/churches-midways-pastors-barkers/](http://www.johnrothra.com/churches-midways-pastors-barkers/)
 * One of the tags it created was “Satan Rev” which is nonsensical and I’d like 
   to delete just that tag. When read in context, it’s clear that “Rev” is not a
   last name, but the book of Revelation abbreviated. The plugin seems to have ignored
   the punctuation (quotation mark and opening parenthesis).
 * How do I remove just that one tag without doing a full clean-up that would remove
   lots of tags?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/strictly-autotags/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/strictly-autotags/)

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 *  Plugin Author [strictly-software](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strictly-software/)
 * (@strictly-software)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-certain-tags/#post-5057713)
 * Hi
 * You can delete tags in the normal way e.g use the inbuilt WordPress post_tag 
   manager to find the tags you don’t want and delete them.
 * As it’s a computer program it’s not always going to get things right which is
   why a certain level of maintenance is needed such as regularly deleting tags 
   that have less than X posts associated with them and ensuring your noise word
   list and other config settings are tailored for your own site.
 * Remember this tool is designed to create tags (if auto discovery is on) without
   using 3rd party lookups (API calls to databases on other servers) which may fail
   due to network/server issues, not have recent tags, or rely on someone entering
   the tags in another database. Therefore it uses common patterns to try and match
   what it “thinks” are tags.
 * Satan Rev on it’s own would be seen in the same context as any other name of 
   person, company, institution or building as it’s looking for capitalised words
   next to each other and skipping “noise” words.
 * However all tags can still be managed through WordPress and I don’t store them
   anywhere special so you can always use other tag management plugins alongside
   this plugin.
 * Thanks
 * Rob

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-certain-tags/#post-5057713)
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