Fetching tags with content api

rebeca · April 1, 2019, 7:26pm

Hello, this is a question.

I’m using the content-api. Just created a few tags (not associated with any post), and tried to fetch them.:

ghostBlogApi.tags.browse({ limit: 'all' });

However, I get none of the tags I created. Does the content api only fetch tags related to posts?

What version of Ghost are you using? 2.18.1

vikaspotluri123 · April 1, 2019, 9:15pm

Yep! Here’s an explanation of why

github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

After creating a new tag and requesting its collection page, Ghost returns a 404 | After update to latest Ghost release.

opened 07:20PM - 29 Jan 19 UTC

closed 07:48PM - 29 Jan 19 UTC

iamsanteri

### Issue Summary In an older version of Ghost after creating a completely ne…w tag, an automatic collection page was created with all the posts that were tagged with this particular tag. If the tag that was just created didn't have any posts with it, the URL would still render correctly but without any tagged posts (200 - OK, successful). After updating to the latest release I noticed that when you create a new tag and try to access the tag page, Ghost returns a 404 error. When troubleshooting I realized that after tagging any of my current posts with that new tag, only then the tag page rendered correctly. I believe this is a bug and if implemented intentionally, it only serves to cause confusion with Ghost users. ### To Reproduce 1. Create a new tag with Ghost. 2. Use a browser to access the new tag URL provided when creating the tag in Ghost admin panel. 3. Receive a 404 (Page not found.) -- Continues: 5. Tag an already published post or publish a new one with the newly created tag. 6. Use a browser to access the tag URL. 7. Receive a 200 (OK.) -- Reproduce Again: 8. Delete the tag from the published post and re-publish it without the newly created tag again. 9. Use a browser to access the tag URL. 10. Receive a 404 (Page not found.) -> Although tag does exist in Ghost admin panel ### Any other info e.g. Why do you consider this to be a bug? What did you expect to happen instead? I consider this to be a bug as the behaviour when creating new tags in Ghost before was different and made more sense. Sometimes I think that the users of Ghost want to create a new (empty) tag collections page without any posts in it. This is because after creating a new tag and the page, one may want to include it in the navigation for testing purposes (design-tab in the Ghost admin panel) before the initial post with this tag has even been published. Currently it will just return a 404 error although the post collection page should already exist. I believe thus that this is a bug. I think the older behaviour with Ghost rendering an empty tag page is the way to go but this is just my opinion. Your thoughts? ### Technical details: * Ghost Version: 2.13.1 * Node Version: 8.15.0 * Browser/OS: Any evergreen browser, Mac OS. * Database: MySQL

system · April 15, 2019, 9:15pm

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