[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #59811: Remove suggestion to add tags and categories

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#59811: Remove suggestion to add tags and categories
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 Reporter:  joostdevalk                     |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Editor                          |    Version:
 Severity:  normal                          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  administration, sustainability  |
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 Right now, in the pre-publish screen, we suggest users to add tags and
 categories to their post. I'd like to make a few changes to what we do
 there, and I'll explain why:

 - If no tags and no categories are selected, we could suggest adding
 either a tag or a category. But:
   - If a site doesn't have any tags, we shouldn't suggest adding tags.
   - If a site doesn't have any categories, we shouldn't suggest adding
 categories.
   - If this leads to not suggesting either, then that's fine.

 Right now, we suggest adding tags ''and'' categories to every page. Every
 time someone creates a new tag that way, we create a new URL on the
 internet that needs to be crawled, when really that page might not be very
 useful at all.

 In my ideal world, if a theme has no support for tags (many don't show
 tags on post pages), we shouldn't even have an interface for it. We might
 consider adding something like an `add_theme_support` feature for tags,
 where we default to it being on but allow themes to `remove_theme_support`
 for tag pages and then not show tags in the interface, or something
 similar to that extent.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/59811>
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