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Written by Jacek Zielinski

After discussion with a few persons from Joomla! Community (thanks Ercan ), but not only, I decided to simplify the way of inserting new tags.
Previously editor had to click editor-xtd button to open a new lightbox window, and after that, he could tag his content.
Now it looks much easier.
While editing, below the article text box, there is a new text field "insert tags" like in the picture:

User is able to tag content without clicking on Insert Tags button.
I also took advantage of new trigger function onAfterContentSave. Thanks to this, tags are saved automagically just after article is saved, so everything is saved after clicking on the main Save button.
This function was added in Joomla 1.5.4 so it is indispensable to upgrade Joomla, if needed. The newest package can be downloaded from here.

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Mark makes this comment

Monday, 24 November 2008

This is fantastic. It's very similar to wordpress tags
Omi Azad makes this comment

Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Say in Wordpress there is a existing tag called "Joomla" and when writing a new article if we just type J it shows all the tags starting with J.

Does this behaves like that?
Jacek Zielinski makes this comment

Monday, 18 August 2008

Right now, unfortunately my answer is no, but i was thinking about adding this feature and i am sure i will enable this functionality in the future
Gianni makes this comment

Sunday, 17 August 2008

Hi Jacek,
is there also a way to tag an article selecting one or more tags already stored in the database?
Djeffers makes this comment

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Awesome Job!

This is exactly what Joomla was needing, and you did it in a much better way than anyone else has.

Congrats!
Ercan Özkaya makes this comment

Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Wow. We've just talked about it that was a really fast implementation. I'll check out the new package as soon as I find time. Thanks for your great work!