Casper theme, posts and pages both have a tags selector option. I presume they are the same pool of tags, not one for posts, one different for pages?
It’s just I cant see the point of tagging pages because I can’t seem to pull them up.
I tag pages blog and another topic, hoping that the pages will be listed along with genuine blog posts, but /tag/chickens only brings up blog posts.
What glaring obviousness am I missing? Thanks.
Pages don’t appear in any listing automatically, pages are intended to be separate entities that are linked to directly as they form the static structure of your site like the about page or customised landing pages.
If you are expecting your page content to appear in a tag listing then it sounds like you should be creating them as posts rather than pages.
An example use-case for tagging pages would be with a more complex site architecture where you build up custom navigation using the {{get}} helper in your theme.
Thanks, I use pages as you suggest, for structure, but was lured by the tag option! Wondering why the tag option is there for pages if it is only for rare use case theme development?
Those use-cases aren’t so rare, tagging pages (especially with private tags) is incredibly useful for many reasons other than more complex navigation.
One example is using a different template based on a page’s private tags so certain pages have a different layout, that would let you tag some pages with #help for example so that your site’s help documentation has a different layout to your typical landing page or post content, or to have a #no-ads tag to turn off some automatic ad insertion for certain pages.