Tag Groups – WordPress Plugin

Finally a tag cloud that is searchable! Filter your tags by group and by name. All matching tags rearrange live in a nifty animation.

Imagine you run a website with recipes. Your recipes are tagged with ingredients, preparation times, difficulty levels and so on. The Toggle Post Filter lets your visitors select tags and displays a list of recipes that match the search criteria. They can also search by text.

Various logic operators are possible. Show, for example, items that match at least one tag from each group.

Search for recipes that use potatoes or beans with a preparation time of 15 minutes or 30 minutes. Or display photos of landscape or architecture or food, taken in Brazil or Norway or Japan. Or filter your travel blog posts by places (Grand Canyon or Pyramids or Himalaya) and years (2004 or 2014).

When visitors click on a post and then return, the filter can remember their previous position in the list.

• search cocktails by ingredients, spices, decoration, color and if they contain alcohol
• search classes by teacher, topic, level or place
• search photos by place, year, motive, color, author or mood (demo)
• search a knowledgebase by cause, symptom or goal

Display your post tags under each post sorted into groups.

Append the post count to each tag? Choose your own separator? Display only tags that appear in a particular posts? No problem.

Tag Groups does not only add a second layer to your tags. You can even assign the same tag to multiple groups. Break away from the limits of default hierarchies – remember that each category can have only one parent. But what if you need to sort your tag “Mel Gibson” under both “Actors” and “Directors”, or “Washington” under “Cities” and “States”? Now it is possible!

Replace the default box to add tags to a post with a box that lets you select tags sorted into groups. Find a tag by typing its first letters, or select them with your mouse. Move tags to other groups by drag and drop.¹

• Bulk Adding of Tags: Add all tags of one group with the click of a button. If you often need to add the same set of tags, instead of adding them every time one-by-one, create a group for them.

• Control Your Tags: Restrict the creation of new tags in the Meta Box, or moving tags to other groups. You can restrict it for everyone, or grant exceptions for certain user roles (administrator, editor, author). That way you can prevent that post authors mess up your tag collection.
• Identify New Tags: Color coding for new and changed tags help you avoid typos. Reduce the risk of accidentally adding a new tag by misspelling a tag name.

This even works with other flat taxonomies, like product tags.

A setup wizard will guide you through the initial setup. Create sample content and a sample page where you see all features live on your own site.

Tag Groups makes the best of the new Gutenberg editor: Configure your tag clouds and the Toggle Post Filter with a sleek user interface.

No more meddling with shortcode parameters!

If you prefer to use shortcodes, however, you find the same features as shortcodes that work even with the classic editor.

Tag Groups is officially compatible with the WordPress Multilingual plugin (WPML): Group names are translatable. Simply edit them for each language.

Learn more about how to make your WordPress site multilingual.