Joost de Valk

<p>One of the most common SEO problems on WordPress sites is that people add too many tags to posts. In fact, <a href="https://fewertags.com/research/" rel="nofollow ugc">our research shows</a> that <em>most</em> WordPress sites use tags wrong. The WordPress interface makes it incredibly easy to do so, and with every tag you add, you add another URL to your site for search engines to crawl and index. This plugin minimizes that effect by setting a minimum number of posts needed for a tag to be “live” on your site.</p>
<p>Fewer Tags Free solves this problem for you! It does that by simply not showing tags that have less than 10 posts in them to users and search engines.</p>
<p>Tags that have less than the configured number of posts:</p>
<ul>
<li>Are hidden from visitors and search engines on your site, and are redirected to your homepage.</li>
<li>They don’t show up in tag listings.</li>
<li>The are no longer linked in WordPress core’s or Yoast SEO or Slim SEO generated XML sitemaps.</li>
</ul>
<p>This positively affects your site’s SEO and also leads to less crawling, as you have less useless tag pages.</p>
<p>See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KItn1X1qMas" rel="nofollow ugc">this video</a> if you want to learn how to use Fewer Tags Free.</p>
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<p>If you want to <em>truly</em> solve the tag problem on your site, consider the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkF3Y6iIoDk" rel="nofollow ugc">Fewer Tags Pro plugin & course</a>. It’ll help you fix the problems with tags on your site very quickly.</p>
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<p>You can buy Fewer Tags Pro (or read more about it) on <a href="https://fewertags.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">fewertags.com</a>!</p>


Fewer Tags Free

This plugin minimizes the effect of having too many tags by setting a minimum number of posts needed for a tag to be “live” on your site.

Peter Raschendorfer

<p>The Smart Hashtags Plugin allows you to use #hashtags, @usernames and $cashtags in your posts</p>
<p>This plugin uses the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Posts_Tags_Screen" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Tag system</a> to automatically convert a #hashtag into a Post Tag. Each #hashtag is added as a “normal” tag (without leading hash) to the post, so it is fully compatible with existing tags!</p>
<h3>Retired Plugin</h3>
<p>Development, maintenance and support of this plugin has been retired in october 2023. You can use this plugin as long as is works for you.</p>
<p>There will be no more updates and I won’t answer any support questions. Thanks for your understanding.</p>
<p>Feel free to fork this plugin.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Just type anywhere in a post</p>
<p><strong>#hashtag</strong><br />
This adds “hashtag” as tag to the current post and on links to tag archive page for “hashtag” when showing the post.</p>
<p><strong>+#hashtag</strong><br />
Use +#hashtag to only link to a tag archive page without adding “hashtag” as tag to the post. When showing the post the link is showed as “#hashtag” (without “+”). If the tag does not exist the text remains unchanged and no link is created.</p>
<p><strong>##hashtag</strong><br />
Use duplicate ##hashes to tell the plugin that this word should not be converted into a tag. Duplicate hashes are replaced by a single hash when showing the post.</p>
<p><strong>@username</strong><br />
This creates a link either to the Profile Page or the Website of User “username”. The usage of @usernames can be activated optionally. If the username does not exist the text remains unchanged and no link is created. It is <strong>highly recommended</strong> to use @nicknames instead of @usernames to enhance security.</p>
<p><strong>@@username</strong><br />
Use @@username to avoid link creation. When showing the post this is displayed as “@username” without link (@username feature has to be activated).</p>
<p><strong>$cashtag</strong><br />
This creates a link to the concerning stock symbol at MarketWatch, Google Finance, Yahoo Finance or StockTwits. The usage of $cashtags can be activated optionally. $cashtags link to the concerning stock symbol at MarketWatch, Google Finance or Yahoo Finance. <strong>Notice</strong>: stock symbols can not be validated, using a invalid stock symbol will cause an not found error on the target site.</p>
<p><strong>$$chashtag</strong><br />
Use $$cashtag to avoid link creation. When showing the post this is displayed as “$cashtag” without link ($cashtag feature has to be activated).</p>
<h3>WordPress Security</h3>
<p>If you activate the @username feature <strong>it is highly recommended to use @nickname instead of @username</strong>!</p>
<h3>Post Types and Section Types</h3>
<p>It is possible to use #hashtags, @usernames and $cashtags on Posts, on Pages and on Custom Post Types within Content, Title and Excerpt. Activate only the Post Types and Section Types you want to be processed to avoid unnecessary processing for best performance.</p>
<h3>Formatting links</h3>
<p>Additional CSS Class(es) to add to the #hashtag and @username links can be configured on the plugins setting page.</p>
<h3>Display of links in front end</h3>
<p>Optionally all symbols (#, @, $) can be removed from the links generated in front end.</p>
<h3>Display of Tags in front end</h3>
<p>There’s an option to automatically add a hash symbol in front of tags (e.g. when using the Tag Cloud Widget).</p>
<h3>Plugin Privacy Information</h3>
<ul>
<li>This plugin does not set cookies</li>
<li>This plugin does not collect or store any data</li>
<li>This plugin does not send any data to external servers</li>
</ul>
<h3>For developers</h3>
<p>Use <code>do_hashtagger( $content )</code> in your theme files to process #hashtags and @usernames in $content.</p>


Smart Hashtags [#hashtagger]


This works great on several of my sites. Thanks for all your work on it before retiring!


Simple and useful

Allows you to use #hashtags, @usernames and $cashtags in your posts. #hashtags are automatically added as post tags. Highly customizable!

Fewer Tags Free vs Smart Hashtags [#hashtagger]