Do you want to save time by Automatically tagging your WordPress posts?
Tags help website visitors easily find the content on your website. However, making sure all your content is properly tagged can be time-consuming, especially if youโve already published lots of content without adding tags.
In this article, we will show you how you can automatically tagging your WordPress posts.
Why Automatically Tagging Your WordPress Posts?
Tagsย are one of the easiest ways to organize posts on yourย WordPress website.
While categories are meant to group your posts broadly, you can use tags to describe the specific details of a post.
For example, yourย WordPress blogย might have a โSportsโ category. You can add detailed tags such as โfootball,โ โUEFA Champions League,โ and โEuropean cupโ to help users find specific topics in that category.
To learn more, see our in-depth comparison ofย categories vs tags.
Adding tags to your posts can take a lot of time, especially if you use lots of different tags on your website.
You may also miss opportunities to add a relevant tag, which can stop visitors from finding what theyโre looking for on your site.
With that in mind, letโs see how you can tag your posts automatically.
How to Automatically Tag Your WordPress Posts and Save Time
The easiest way to tag your WordPress posts automatically is by usingย TaxoPress.
If a word or phrase in a new blog postโs title or content matches one of your tags, TaxoPress will add that tag to the post.
Letโs look at an example. On your website, imagine you have several tags including recipe, chocolate, and pasta.
If you publish a new post with the title โBest Chocolate Cake Recipe,โ then TaxoPress will see two matches in the title and automatically add the tags โrecipeโ and โchocolate.โ
To get started with automatically tagging your posts, youโll need to install and activate theย TaxoPress plugin. If you need more help, then please see our guide onย how to install a WordPress pluginย for more details.
In this tutorial, weโre using the free version of TaxoPress which limits you to a single rule for tagging posts. This is enough to automatically tag all your WordPress posts. However, if you want to create multiple rules to use in different ways, then youโll need to upgrade toย TaxoPress Pro.
With that said, your first task upon activation is to create a rule that will automatically tag your WordPress posts. This rule is called an โAuto Term.โ
To get started, go toย TaxoPress ยป Auto Termsย in your WordPress admin area. After that, you need to click on the โAdd New Auto Termsโ button.
Next, you will need to type in a title for the new auto term.
The title is just for your reference, so you can use anything you want.
TaxoPress can automatically tag more than just posts. It can alsoย tag imagesย and pages.
For this article, we will only automatically tag WordPress posts, so just check the โPostsโ box.
Next, you can open the โTaxonomyโ dropdown.
In the list that appears, click on โTags (post_tag).โ
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When searching for content to tag, TaxoPress will scan a postโs title and content by default. You can change that in the โFind term in:โ dropdown and select โPost Contentโ or โPost Titleโ only.
Once youโre done selecting options, go ahead and click on the โSourcesโ tab.
This is where weโll select the tags that we want to use in this auto term.

By default, TaxoPress will pull from every tag youโve ever created on your site. For some sites, that will be way too many.
You can set which ones the plugin has access to by checking the โUse only some terms in the selected taxonomyโ box.

Now, in the โChoose the terms to useโ field, start typing in the name of a tag.
When the right tag shows up, click on it. Repeat this for all the tags you want to include in this auto term.
Once youโve done all that, click on the โOptionsโ tab.
This screen is where you can fine-tune the automatic tagging process.
By default, TaxoPress will add tags for partial matches. This means that if you have a post on yourย food blog called โThe best chocolate cake recipes, then the โrecipeโ tag will be added even though โrecipesโ is not an exact match.
If you only want TaxoPress to add tags when thereโs an exact match, go ahead and check the โWhole wordsโ box.
When youโre happy with the settings, click on the โSave Auto Termsโ button.
Now, every time youย publish a new post in WordPress, TaxoPress will check the postโs content and title. If it finds a match, then it will add one or more tags to the post automatically.
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How to Automatically Tag Your Published WordPress Posts
By default, TaxoPress will tag new posts as you publish them. Additionally, the plugin will try to add missing tags when you update an existing post.
TaxoPress can also tag posts that youโve already published on your site, using the same auto terms youโve created using the process above.
To get started, go toย TaxoPress ยป Auto Terms. You can then click on the auto term we created earlier.
Once youโve done that, click on the โExisting Contentโ tab.
You will now see all of the settings and rules that you previously created.
If you have lots of content on your site, then it may take TaxoPress a long time to process it all. While the plugin is tagging existing posts, your site may run slower.
Toย speed up WordPress performance, itโs a good idea to configure TaxoPress to scan your posts in smaller batches with a longer interval between them.
By default, TaxoPress will scan your content in batches of 20 posts every 10 seconds. You can decrease the number of posts in a batch by simply typing a lower number into the โLimit per batchesโ field.
You can then increase the time between batches by typing a higher number into the โBatches wait timeโ field.
Another option is to only scan posts that were published within a certain timeframe.
For example, to only tag posts that were published within the last 6 months, simply open the โLimit Auto Terms, based on published dateโ dropdown and select โ6 months ago.โ
When youโre happy with these settings, youโre ready to scan the content thatโs already live on your website.
To start the process, simply click on the โAdd Auto Terms to existing contentโ button.
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Once the plugin has finished automatically tagging existing content, youโll see an โAll doneโ message onscreen. Below that, TaxoPress will show how many posts it checked and how many tags it added to your WordPress posts.
We hope this article helped you learn how to automatically tag your WordPress posts and save time. You can also go through our guide on theย best contact form plugins for WordPressย andย how to create automated workflows with Uncanny Automator.
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