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Tags Page

The tags page gives each of your topics a block of its own: the tag's name, its description, and its six latest posts. Readers can see what you cover and what is new in each topic on one page.

Setup Instructions#

  1. Go to Pages → New page
  2. Enter a page title, for example Topics
  3. Open Page settings and change Page URL to tags
  4. Optionally add a description in the Excerpt field
  5. Click Publish

The page title and excerpt are only displayed when Show title and feature image is enabled in Page settings. The feature image is not shown, and anything you write in the page body is not shown either. The tag blocks fill the page on their own.

What Each Block Shows#

PartWhere it comes from
HeadingThe tag's Name
Line under itThe tag's Description
View AllA link to the tag's archive
CardsThe tag's six latest posts, newest first

A tag with no published posts is skipped.

Choosing the Tags#

By default the page shows the 12 tags with the most posts. To change which tags appear and in what order:

  1. Navigate to ⛭ Settings → Design
  2. Click Customize
  3. Open the Theme tab
  4. In the Site-wide group, find Page tags filter
  5. Enter a filter, for example popular:20, a-z or world,business,tech
  6. Click Save

See Filters for the full syntax.

Issue tags, the ones whose slug starts with issue-, never appear on this page. They have their own page at /issues/. See Issues. The tags of the markets tape do appear when the filter picks them. To leave them out, list the slugs you want.

Managing Tags#

  1. Navigate to ⛭ Settings → Tags
  2. Click New tag to create a new tag
  3. Enter the tag name and slug
  4. Add a Description, which appears under the tag's name on this page
  5. Click Save

The filter keywords only pick public tags, so internal tags, the ones that start with #, do not appear on this page.