Magento : How do product tags work? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mihail Borisovich   
Friday, 16 April 2010 21:49

Tags are descriptors that you can assign to any product to help you organize and remember
them. They’re essentially keywords or keyword phrases. Any logged in user can add as many
tags to a product as he/she wants and rename or delete them later. Tags will be viewable by
everyone browsing the product, and will display in a block on the product info page. The admin
has to approve a tag the first time it is used, before it appears in the front-end. Once the tag has
been approved by the Store Owner it is free for use on other products, and will not have to be
approved again.

Adding tags to products in the front-end

Customers can add tags to any product in the tags block on the product page.
The tags block appears below product description and attribute specs:

 

In the tag block above, a customer has added three tags. Note that phrases are inside single
quotes. After submitting the tags, an administrator has to approve them.

Note: As store owner, you can add tags directly to products in the front-end if you
want to pre-populate your tag clouds. Below is the tag cloud as it appears in the
homepage in this design package:

 

 

Approving tags

Log into the Magento admin

Navigate to Catalog -> Tags -> Pending Tags

You’ll now see a list of tags that haven’t been approved yet. Each tag lets
you View Products or View Customers for this tag in the Action column. View
Products opens a list of all products which have been tagged with this word or phrase.
View Customers opens a list of all customers who have used this tag on any product.

From this page, you can check multiple tags and delete or change the status of them
all simultaneously.

 

Click on one tag to edit it

 

To approve the tag, just change the Status to “Approved”, and click “Save Tag”.
(Note: If a customer has entered a tag you don’t want to ever see again, simply
change the status to “Disabled” and this tag will not be stored if entered again.)

Seeing approved tags in the front-end

If you navigate back to the product in the front-end, you’ll now see the tags you
entered at the beginning of the article display in the tags section:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 April 2010 07:12