A tag is a word or short phrase that "describes" the article. An article may have as many tags as you like. They can be a great way to add organization and navigation to your knowledge base.
The easiest way to think about tags is to consider them like filters for your content. These filters can be used:
- By your readers using a tag search (which begins with ":" followed by the tag name)
- As custom filters in Manage: if you're using tags for these kinds of internal filters only, you can mark tags as "hidden" so they won't show up to readers
For readers, tags will display:
- In search results, in a Tags section between the Last Updated and the article blurb:
- In the search autocomplete after they've begun a search phrase with a colon (":"):
- If you've added the article-tags template to Settings > Customize > Style (HTML & CSS) > Customize HTML, CSS, and JS > Custom HTML > Article, tags will display in the article wherever you've added that template. (These are not included by default in the article layout, though.)
