The 2013-02-15 release fixed a security issue (XSS vulnerability), if you are using an older version of the tag plugin you should upgrade ASAP!

The Tag Plugin lets you assign category tags to wiki pages.

Updating from before 2012-08-24: Please remove the tag plugin and re-install it as the plugin manager has a bug so the update won't remove no longer needed parts of the plugin. This is a large change to the way the tag plugin stores the tags. If you don't want to wait till the tag index is automatically rebuilt by visiting the pages with the tags, you can rebuild the tag index manually. You also need to update the cloud plugin or the tag cloud won't work anymore.

{{tag>[list of tags]}}

Allows you to categorize your wiki pages. The resulting links either point to the corresponding page in the specified tag namespace (only if it exists). If you want a link to point to a page in another namespace, you have to indicate the namespace before the tag name. If this page doesn't exist, just the list of pages with the same tag is shown when you follow one of those links.

Examples:

• {{tag>tag1 tag2 tag3}}
• with namespaces: {{tag>ns1:tag1 ns1:tag2 ns2:subns1:tag3}}
• multiple word tags: {{tag>tag1_with_multiple_words tag2 tag3_part}}

{{topic>[tag]&[flags]}}

This displays a list of all pages that contain the given category tag. The list is sorted alphabetically by page ID. You can also prepend the modifiers + and -. + creates an intersection between the list of pages created by the already defined tags and the pages matching the tag following the + (AND), - removes all pages tagged with the given tag from the list of already found pages.

Example:

• {{topic>tag1 -tag2}} – Lists all pages tagged with tag1 but not with tag2.
• {{topic>tag1 +tag2}} – Lists all pages tagged with tag1 and tag2.
• {{topic>tag1 tag2}} – Lists all pages tagged with either tag1 or tag2 or both.
• {{topic>ns1?tag1 tag2}} – List all pages inside namespace ns1 tagged with either tag1 or tag2
• {{topic>.?tag1 tag2}} – List all pages inside the current namespace tagged with either tag1 or tag2
• {{topic>tag1 tag2 tag3&nodate&desc&sort}} (Adding pagelist options to change the design)

 {{searchtags&[flags]}}

This displays a search form with the possibility to select a namespace and to select tags from a table of all tags that should either be in- or excluded with the option to choose if the tags should be associated with AND or OR. The results are displayed as in the topic component.

This is a great feature which you should not miss. Please add a screenshot of this cool feature.

And you might check out TagFilter Plugin for similar purpose but in different scenarios.

Example:

• {{searchtags}} – The basic syntax
• {{searchtags&nodate&desc&sort}} – with pagelist options to change the design

{{count>[tag]}}

This part allows you to display an overview of your current used tags. It prints the tag and the related occurrence (how often is the tag used?) in your wiki. Either you can specify a + as tag-name, which results in a list of all used tags or just specify some tags separated by spaces.

Example:

• {{count>+}} – List all tags with related occurrences.
• {{count>tag1 tag2}} – List the occurrence of tag1 and tag2.
• {{count>tag1 tag2 tag3&. ns1 ns2}} – List all occurrences for the given tags inside the namespaces (the dot specifies the root namespace)

 {{tagpage>[tag][&dynamic][|title]}}

This displays a link to the listing of all tags as it is done by the Tag syntax but without tagging the page with that tag. With the optional dynamic flag the link becomes red when the listing of all pages with that tag is empty for the current user. The dynamic flag automatically disables the cache of the current page in order to ensure that the link color is always correct. Optionally a title can be specified that will be used as link name.

Example:

• {{tagpage>test_foo}} – The basic syntax
• {{tagpage>test_foo&dynamic}} – A link with dynamic link color
• {{tagpage>test_foo|my title}} – A link with custom title
• {{tagpage>test_foo&dynamic|my | title}} – A link with dynamic link color and custom title (that can also contain |)

The plugin can be configured with the DokuWiki configuration manager available in the admin menu.

If the tag index becomes corrupted somehow (such as by using page move), then you can rebuild it by using the searchindex plugin or bin/indexer.php.

• 2014-02-16
  • New and updated translations
  • Fixed tag searching with out of date indexes and numbers
  • Drop compatibility with DokuWiki versions older than 2013-05-10 “Weatherwax” in order to be able to use newer DokuWiki features
• 2013-04-14
  • New sorting key “ns” which lists for each namespace first all pages in the namespace sorted by name and then all subnamespaces sorted by namespace name
  • Sort by page name (as displayed by the pagelist plugin) when no title exists and the sort key is title
  • In the topic syntax an implicit query for all pages is assumed if the query starts with a tag with “+” or “-”, this means that “+tag +tag2” is now the same as “tag +tag2” and that “-tag1” will return all pages without tag1.
  • The tagRefine-function (used by the blog plugin) now also supports tags without “+” or “-”
  • Revert the tag query change that was introduced in version 2012-08-24, before this change the query was executed as if all tags with a “+” or “-” were at the end while the documentation actually describes that the order matters. Each part of the query modifies the existing result set and either adds new pages (tag without “+” or “-”) or removes all pages with (“-”) or without a tag (“+”).
• 2013-04-05:
  • New tagpage feature for creating a link to the list of all pages with a certain tag without tagging the page
  • Removed the Technorati ping feature as Technorati is no longer using any pings
  • zh-tw translation updated
• 2013-02-15:
  • fixed a security issue (XSS vulnerability), if you are using an older version of the tag plugin you should upgrade ASAP!
• 2012-11-25
  • New searchtags feature, displays a search form for the topic syntax
  • Fix section edit button styles for the new dokuwiki template
  • In the topic syntax now really only namespaces and not pages are matched by namespace parameter
  • When sorting by the title the case is ignored now
  • The topic syntax of the tag plugin is now used instead of the topic syntax of the blogtng plugin when both are installed
  • Fix problems that tags could be missing when another page is rendered during the preview or when an old revision is diplayed
• 2012-08-24
  • The tag plugin is now using the metadata index of DokuWiki instead of its own index for storing tags. Most plugins that need the tag plugin need to be adapted.
  • Tags are now normalized in the same way as page ids are normalized

Development changelog:

• Merge pull request #257 from dokuwiki-translate/lang_update_749_17017… (2023-12-05 20:53)
• translation update (2023-12-05 14:20)
• update plugin.info.txt (2023-10-17 20:40)
• Make selector less specific by using .dokuwiki (2023-10-17 20:39)
• Version upped (2023-09-11 21:50)
• Merge pull request #254 from Miro-Collas/master (2023-09-11 15:31)
• Another minor fix (2023-09-10 23:10)
• Miro bugfix (2023-09-10 23:04)

Feel free to add yours here:

• http://tokeek.de (German)
• Prinz Eisenherz Lexikon (German)
• Psiconauti (Italian)

Just use an “_”, it gets automatically replaced by a “ ” i.e.:

{{tag>tag_with_multiple_words}}

Also, quotes seem to work:

{{tag>"tag with multiple words"}}

This colors the background of the page to red if the keyword 'deprecated' is specified as a tag.

function _handle_keywords(&$data) {
        global $ID;
 
        // Fetch tags for the page; stop proceeding when no tags specified
        $tags = p_get_metadata($ID, 'subject', METADATA_DONT_RENDER);
        if(is_null($tags)) true;
 
        // Replace underscores with blanks
        foreach($data->data['meta'] as &$meta) {
            if($meta['name'] == 'keywords') {
                $meta['content'] = str_replace('_', ' ', $meta['content']);
 
                $t = explode(',', $meta['content']);
                if(in_array('deprecated', $t)) {
                    $data->data['style'][] = array('type'  => 'text/css',
                                                     '_data' => '.dokuwiki .page {background-color: red;}');
                }
            }
        }       
}

If you add at pagelist/helper.php

function tpl_youarehere2_help($id){
    $result = '';
    global $conf;
    global $ID;
    global $lang;
    // check if enabled
    if(!$conf['youarehere']) return false;
    $parts = explode(':', $id);
    $count = count($parts);
    // always print the startpage
    $result .= html_wikilink(':'.$conf['start']);
    // print intermediate namespace links
    $part = '';
    for($i=0; $i<$count - 1; $i++){
        $part .= $parts[$i].':';
        $page = $part;
        if ($page == $conf['start']) continue; // Skip startpage
        // output
        $result .= ' &raquo '.html_wikilink($page);
    }
    // print current page, skipping start page, skipping for namespace index
    resolve_pageid('',$page,$exists);
    if(isset($page) && $page==$part.$parts[$i]) return $result;
    $page = $part.$parts[$i];
    if($page == $conf['start']) return $result;
    $result .= ' &raquo '.html_wikilink($page);
    return $result;
}
 
function tpl_youarehere2($id) {
    $str = $this->tpl_youarehere2_help($id);
    $pos = strrpos($str , '&raquo');
    if ($pos == -1)
    return $str;
    return substr($str, 0, $pos);
}
 
function addPage2($page) {
    $id = $page['id'];
    if (!$id) return false;
    $this->page = $page;
    $this->_meta = NULL;
    // priority and draft
    if (!isset($this->page['draft'])) {
        $this->page['draft'] = ($this->_getMeta('type') == 'draft');
    }
    $class = '';
    if (isset($this->page['priority'])) $class .= 'priority'.$this->page['priority']. ' ';
    if ($this->page['draft']) $class .= 'draft ';
    if ($this->page['class']) $class .= $this->page['class'];
    if(!empty($class)) $class = ' class="' . $class . '"';
    $this->doc .= DOKU_TAB.'<tr'.$class.'>'.DOKU_LF;
    $this->_pageCell($id);
    if ($this->column['date']) $this->_dateCell();
    if ($this->column['user']) $this->_userCell();
    if ($this->column['desc']) $this->_descCell();
    foreach ($this->plugins as $plug => $col) {
        if ($this->column[$col]) $this->_pluginCell($plug, $col, $id);
    }
    $this->doc .= DOKU_TAB.'</tr>'.DOKU_LF;
    $this->doc .= DOKU_TAB.'<tr'.$class.'>'.DOKU_LF;
    $this->doc .= DOKU_TAB.DOKU_TAB.'<td style="padding-left:19px; padding-right:15px; padding-bottom:15px; font-size:10px;">';
    $this->doc .= $this->tpl_youarehere2($id);
    $this->doc .='</td>'.DOKU_LF;
    $this->doc .= DOKU_TAB.'</tr>'.DOKU_LF;
    return true;
}

And change tag/action.php

$pagelist->setFlags($flags);
$pagelist->startList();
foreach ($pages as $page) {
    $pagelist->addPage($page);
}

to

$pagelist->setFlags($flags);
$pagelist->startList();
foreach ($pages as $page) {
    $pagelist->addPage2($page);
}

After that, the list of pages that contain the tag, except for the names of pages themselves under them will also be bread crumbs to these pages.

Integrated to main code (see tags_list_css) option

When you insert the syntax at the top of a wiki page, the output of the plugin will be displayed below the TOC (Table of Contents). To make the visual appearance more smooth, change your lib/plugins/tag/style.css to the following code:

div.dokuwiki div.tags {
  border-top: 2px dotted __border__;
  font-size: 95%;
  text-align: right;
/*  clear: both; */
}

Is it possible to change the word tag used in syntax to something else, like another language {{tagInMylanguage>someTag}} –damascene 2012/04/10

I want the description under the tag, is it possible to make a line brake or to get the description under the tag? Thx

Is there any tip for hierarchical tag? I try to categorize my pages. For example, there are two pages. A Persian cat page has {tag>animal:cat}. And a Dalmatian dog page has {tag>animal:dog}. If I write '{topic>animal}, I hope to see the two pages, but all I can see is blank. Yes, I can tag that {tag>animal dog}, {tag>animal cat}, but it is not fancy.

How do I tag a page? Lots of detail about how to display tagged pages, but I cannot find anything about how to tag a page to begin with.

You have to type it into the page. Look at the Components portion of this page to see what to type.

For bugs or feature requests, there is the bug tracker linked here : Bug tracker.

This plugin clashes with the include module of the mediasyntax plugin. One workaround is to disable that part of the mediasyntax plugin by renaming the include.php file.

If you have a tag name that is the same as a page name that already exists, the tag links will point to that page in the current namespace rather than the page name in the tag namespace. Is this a bug or a feature? (3-Aug-2011)?

Found the issue. If you do not specify a namespace, it defaults to whatever is defined as the default namespace (ie. root:tag). If you do specify a namespace, it makes whatever you specify as the location for the data file (ie. root:mynamespace), NOT root:tag:mynamespace.

• Is there no way to display all used tags? This would be very useful for finding typos and (nearly) duplicate entries. (2012-02-21)
  • Sry, me stupid, it works with count… BUG except that the table-entries are empty in my wiki! Latest DW/Plugin, with ~~NOCACHE~~ Screenshot. Sry for not registering at github for this.
    • In most of my installation it works, in some not… clueless!
  • How to sort the taglist (count>+) alphabetical?

My wiki has about 7000 pages with tags. It takes 25 seconds to display ~~TAGCLOUD~~ (My server runs with latest NGINX, UBUNTU 12.04, 4 core i5 cpu with 8gb ram, intel SSD ). Anyone have any other suggestion? or Do I need SQL-based tagging solution? — S.C. Yoo 2014/04/19 06:02

Individual Search Form: I'd like a form where the user could just type in the tag name, click search, and then a list is generated below. I know you got the searchtags but its just going to get unwieldy with the amount of tags I'm envisioning having. Thanks

Structured Tags: Can this (or any other plugin) support structured tags in addition to free-form tags? – 2014-09-02

I'm using Dokuwiki under Debian, last version in Debian distro. I installed plugin tags, but don't work :(

All page with {{tag>name_tag}} results a blank page, including the content of the page. I don't know what don't work but, I can't use it :(

I am using Debian Wheezy and I am having the same issue.

»»»»» Hy, I think the tag should be separted by a “,”. I mean what happen if I wanna tag “New York City” ? In present is created separte tag for “new” “york” “city” and that's not really good. — A.V

Same here, get a Nothing was found page.

(2017-03-28) I had the same problem. By coincidence, I switched to the default Dokuwiki template for an unrelated reason and got a different error when I clicked a tag link: “Helper plugin pagelist is not available.” Installed the pagelist plugin and then it worked. This dependency needs to be documented.

Does this plugin alter the meta tags of the rendered pages? If it doesn't, I would like to leave the suggestion. — Fabricio Rocha 2016-06-11 17:00

Is there any way to sort the output of the {{count>}} command? I'd like to have a page of used tags in alphabetical order, but it seems that pagelist parameters are not supported. — Fabricio Rocha 2016-06-19 19:42

This can be achieved by editing the helper.php file of the plugin. Before the return $otag; line within the function tagOccurrences, just insert the line ksort($otags); and that's all. IMO this should be standard behavior. — Taylan

Is there a way to gen an unorderd list of all tags, similar as

, but without table and occurrences?

Hi, I have attempted to try an solve this but my apologies as I do not know enough about PHP. I use some tags on the site to create dynamic links and I was wondering if there is a way to have the tagsearch have the capability to ignore certain tags. In this case I start the dynamic tags with dw_ and would like to know if possible to filter out all the tags that start with dw_. Thanks for any help! Frank.