# Tags and Tag Synonyms

**URL:** https://publichappinessmovement.com/t/topic/1770
**Category:** Web Developers
**Tags:** documentation, ruby-on-rails, tags, webdev
**Created:** [15 January 2020 12:59 UTC](https://publichappinessmovement.com/t/topic/1770 "2020-01-15T12:59:21Z")
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#### Post date: [15 January 2020 12:59 UTC](https://publichappinessmovement.com/t/topic/1770/1 "2020-01-15T12:59:21Z")

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Tags are our main form of navigation on the forum side of the site. Of course users who want to search for something like ‘Web Dev’ could also enter ‘Web Developers’ ‘Coders’ or any related term.

Fortunately we can create ‘tag synonyms’ to create a group of tags. So if a user enters any of the tags above the forum will show them the defined one, which in this case is ‘webdev’.

There’s a short video on how this works over here:

> **[Merging tags - Tag Synonyms](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-tags-tag-synonyms/81869/17)**
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> This is beautiful work \<3 Edit: i just noticed that it’s a very smooth way to rename a tag too. We have over 100 ‘ux’ tags, but the forum settings want tags with 3 or more letters. I added ‘ux’ as a synonym of ‘ux-design’ and all our ‘ux’ tags...