How to Automatically Tagging Your WordPress Posts and Save Time


Do you want to save time by Automatically tagging your posts?

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 youโ€™ve already published lots of content without adding .

In this article, we will show you how you can automatically tagging your posts.

Automatically tagging your WordPress posts

Why Automatically Tagging Your 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 โ€˜Sportsโ€™ category. You can add detailed tags such as โ€˜football,โ€™ โ€˜UEFA Champions League,โ€™ and โ€˜European 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 theyโ€™re looking for on your site.

With that in mind, letโ€™s 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 postโ€™s title or content matches one of your tags, TaxoPress will add that tag to the post.

Letโ€™s 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 โ€˜Best Chocolate Cake Recipe,โ€™ then TaxoPress will see two matches in the title and automatically add the tags โ€˜recipeโ€™ and โ€˜chocolate.โ€™

To get started with automatically tagging your posts, youโ€™ll 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, weโ€™re 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 youโ€™ll 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 โ€˜Auto Term.โ€™

To get started, go toย TaxoPress ยป Auto Termsย in your WordPress admin area. After that, you need to click on the โ€˜Add New Auto Termsโ€™ button.

Adding a new auto term with TaxoPress

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.

Adding new auto terms to TaxoPress

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 โ€˜Postsโ€™ box.

Tagging WordPress posts automatically

Next, you can open the โ€˜Taxonomyโ€™ dropdown.

In the list that appears, click on โ€˜Tags (post_tag).โ€™

Automatically tagging posts in WordPress

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When searching for content to tag, TaxoPress will scan a postโ€™s title and content by default. You can change that in the โ€˜Find term in:โ€™ dropdown and select โ€˜Post Contentโ€™ or โ€˜Post Titleโ€™ only.

Once youโ€™re done selecting options, go ahead and click on the โ€˜Sourcesโ€™ tab.

This is where weโ€™ll select the tags that we want to use in this auto term.

Setting a source for your automatic tags

By default, TaxoPress will pull from every tag youโ€™ve 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 โ€˜Use only some terms in the selected taxonomyโ€™ box.

Use specific WordPress tags only

Now, in the โ€˜Choose 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.

Automatically add tags to your WordPress posts

Once youโ€™ve done all that, click on the โ€˜Optionsโ€™ tab.

This screen is where you can fine-tune the automatic tagging process.

The TaxoPress 'Options' tab

By default, TaxoPress will add tags for partial matches. This means that if you have a post on yourย food blog called โ€˜The best chocolate cake recipes, then the โ€˜recipeโ€™ tag will be added even though โ€˜recipesโ€™ is not an exact match.

If you only want TaxoPress to add tags when thereโ€™s an exact match, go ahead and check the โ€˜Whole wordsโ€™ box.

Enabling matches for whole words

When youโ€™re happy with the settings, click on the โ€˜Save Auto Termsโ€™ button.

Now, every time youย publish a new post in WordPress, TaxoPress will check the postโ€™s content and title. If it finds a match, then it will add one or more tags to the post automatically.

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Save your TaxoPress auto terms

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 youโ€™ve already published on your site, using the same auto terms youโ€™ve 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.

Editing your TaxoPress auto terms

Once youโ€™ve done that, click on the โ€˜Existing Contentโ€™ tab.

You will now see all of the settings and rules that you previously created.

Automatically tag your published posts

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, itโ€™s 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 โ€˜Limit per batchesโ€™ field.

Changing TaxoPress' batch settings

You can then increase the time between batches by typing a higher number into the โ€˜Batches 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 โ€˜Limit Auto Terms, based on published dateโ€™ dropdown and select โ€˜6 months ago.โ€™

When youโ€™re happy with these settings, youโ€™re ready to scan the content thatโ€™s already live on your website.

To start the process, simply click on the โ€˜Add Auto Terms to existing contentโ€™ button.

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How to automatically tag published posts

Once the plugin has finished automatically tagging existing content, youโ€™ll see an โ€˜All 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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