Joomla tags have been around since J! 3.1. This presentation discusses: What kinds of things you can use Joomla tags with How to create and manage tags Different ways of displaying tags Tags or categories? Concludes with a practical demonstration

1. A presentation by Michael Russell

2.  A tag cloud (or word cloud) is one kind of “weighted list”, (e.g.
commonly used on geographic maps to represent the relative size
of cities in terms of relative typeface size).
 Tags are usually single words and the importance of each tag is
shown with font size or colour.
 The term “tag cloud” as a feature of early Web 2.0 websites and
blogs, used primarily to visualize the frequency distribution of
keyword metadata and as a navigation aid.
 Tag clouds are used in social networking websites (e.g. Twitter via
the #hashtag), in ’blogs, in image sites (e.g. Flicker) … and now
you can use them in Joomla!

3.  Tags can be used in
• Articles
• Categories
• Featured Articles
• Contacts
• Newsfeeds
• Weblinks
 For demonstration purposes, we will look at how tags
work in a simple J! 3.4.1 website using the Protostar
template.

4. From J! 3.1, tags have been included as part
of the core feature set. There is nothing else
to add if you are using Joomla 3.1+.
The tags feature enables you to add a
keyword or words to an item and those
keywords.
Tags can be displayed in a few different
ways.

5.  There are a couple of
ways you can add tags
in Joomla:
1. With the Joomla Tag
Manager component
2. Dynamically, on-the-
fly, when you create a
Joomla article (or
article category,
weblink, etc.)

6.  Tags can be displayed in a few ways.
 Once a tag has been added to an article it will
display automatically under the article title as
shown in the image below:
“recipes” is a tag

7.  Tags can also be displayed using the Popular Tags
and Similar Tags modules.
 To choose one of the modules go to
Extensions » Module Manager.
• Click the New button and
the following two
modules will be available,
as shown in the image.

8.  You also have three options for using tags via menu
links: Tagged items, Compact list of tagged items,
List of all tags.

9.  Tags are similar to, but different from, categories. Both
tags and categories are used to organise content.
 You can happily use both tags and categories on your
site at the same time.
 However, there are two major ways in which tags are
better than categories:
• You can place articles into multiple tags but only one category.
• Tags are a unifying system across your site. You can use the
same tags for all your extensions. With categories, each
extension has its own categories that aren’t shared.

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