How to Show "Tags" Column in Article Manager Backend

[katz123]

Hello,

Hope this makes sense.

I would like to know if it is possible to show tags in the article manager. I know you can navigate and select a tag to see the associated articles - but I would like to know, at a glance, if I forgot to add a tag to an article.

I am using the most current J4.

Thank you.

[Pnkr]

Unfortunately, no. There is no such functionality.
I think it would be a heavy load also to check for each article which tags it has and show them in a table where someone my have pagination of 50,100 or more articles.

[katz123]

Ok, thank you.

[filliphey]

Hello,

Hope this makes sense.

I would like to know if it is possible to show tags in the article manager. I know you can navigate and select a tag to see the associated articles - but I would like to know, at a glance, if I forgot to add a tag to an article.

I am using the most current J4.

Thank you.

Hello,

Yes, it is possible to show tags in the Article Manager in Joomla 4 (J4). While the default setup does not display tags in the list view, you can modify the configuration or use a custom approach to include them.
Navigate to Content > Articles in the Joomla Administrator panel.
Click the Options button in the toolbar (found in the top-right corner).
Under the Articles tab, check if there’s a setting to enable the "Tags" column. Unfortunately, if this option isn’t available by default, proceed to Option 2.
If tags aren't shown by default, you can achieve this through a minor customization:

Locate the Article Manager Code:

Navigate to the backend files of your Joomla installation.
Look for the

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administrator/components/com_content/views/articles/tmpl/default.php file

.
Add a Column for Tags:

Edit the file and add a new column in the table that pulls the tags associated with each article.
Use the

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TagsHelper::getTags()

function to retrieve tags and display them in the new column.
Example code snippet for retrieving tags:

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$tags = TagsHelper::getTags($article->id, 'com_content.article');
echo implode(', ', $tags);

If you’re not comfortable editing code, you can use a third-party Joomla extension to manage tags more effectively. Look for extensions in the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED) that enhance the Article Manager's capabilities.

[katz123]

Thank you - after com_content/ there is no "view" folder.

There is however, administrator/components/com_content/tmpl/articles - and a default.php under that folder - it looks to be the correct file but not positive.

Also this change would only be temporary until the next update.

I appreciate the feedback.

[pixelhexe]

I had the same question for Joomla 5 and here is how I've found a solution. You'll have to copy
administrator/components/com_content/tmpl/articles/default.php
to
administrator/templates/atum/html/com_content/articles/default.php

With this override it won't change with the next update.

In this file you need to make some additions to extend the table with cells - one for the table head and one for the table body.

Start looking for

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use Joomla\Utilities\ArrayHelper;

and add

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use Joomla\CMS\Helper\TagsHelper;

Table head: I put my addition for tags after cell with the title and before cell with access level, so after

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<th scope="col" style="min-width:100px">
<?php echo HTMLHelper::_('searchtools.sort', 'JGLOBAL_TITLE', 'a.title', $listDirn, $listOrder); ?>
</th>

I added:

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<th scope="col" style="min-width:100px">Tags</th>

I do it without sort option because it is sufficient for my purposes.

Table body: Before the cell with access level

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<td class="small d-none d-md-table-cell">...

I added this code to show one or more tags in the additional cell or column:

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 <td class="small d-none d-md-table-cell">
<?php
	$item->tags = new TagsHelper();
        $trainers = $item->tags->getItemTags('com_content.article', $item->id);
        foreach ($trainers  as  $trainer) {
                     echo $trainer->title;
          }
 ?>
</td>

That did the trick for me. Of course you can adapt the variable name "$trainers" for your purposes. Good luck.