Change in Tags?

Developer help
1

Did something change between Ghost version 3.34.1 and version 3.41.3 with regard to Tags?

I have 2 sites running the exact same version of my theme,

In the Ghost version 3.34.1 instance it DOES work… (the tags DO show on hover of the navigation button):

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In the Ghost version 3.41.3 instance it DOES NOT work… (the tags DO NOT show on hover of the navigation button, even though the container DOES show as well):

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On BOTH sites the hover on the Authors button IS WORKING…

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I would sure appreciate any help or ideas on why this might be…

2

How I fixed it (in case it might help someone else with a related problem)…

I removed the code that applied a filter to the list of tags (the blue highlighted code below):

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3

Can you directly explain the difference? The URLs don’t make any sense as they’re nothing alike.

Also just to be clear, 3.34 doesn’t shorten to 3.3 - 3.3 was 31 minor releases earlier.

4

Thank you @Hannah - I’ve now removed the live site URLs since I solved the error, and also corrected the referenced version numbers. Sorry for the confusion.

5

In terms of the code that you “fixed”, this issue is that tags don’t have tags, so filtering tags on tags doesn’t make sense, I think you intended to filter your tags based on slug?

I guess some change in the codebase between those 2 versions resulted in us no longer ignoring the bad filter - it’s not ideal as it represents a breaking change in the API, but it’s very difficult for us to test and reason about all the ways the API could be misused & make sure they don’t change behaviour!

If you look in your server console/logs you should see an error, which you can also see by doing this:

{{#get "tags" limit="all" include="count.posts" order="count.posts" filter="tags:-[getting-started]"}}
   {{#foreach tags}}
       {{name}}
   {{/foreach}}
 {{else}}
   {{@error}}
{{/get}}

Changing the filter to use slug makes it work how I think you intended:

{{#get "tags" limit="all" include="count.posts" order="count.posts" filter="slug:-getting-started"}}
   {{#foreach tags}}
       {{name}}
   {{/foreach}}
{{/get}}
6

Thank you, that makes sense now.