tag management

[verbicide]

Every so often, I get a little OCD about my out-of-control tags. And I just wanted to ask:

There's still no way to rename a tag to a previously existing tag, is there?

Like I have 'bounce!' and also 'bounce!!' and I would like to just rename 'bounce!!' to 'bounce!' because they both have an equal number of posts. (When there are just one or two, it's less daunting a task.)

Anyhow. This seems like such a simple concept, I hope they have a way of doing this that I haven't figured out yet. (That someone out there can tell me.)

Comments

[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

Well, you can go to all of the posts tagged with a particular tag, and then you can one-by-one untag them with the bad tag and retag with the one you want. Annoyingly, however, the old tag still shows up on your list of tags, even when no posts are currently using that tag! (For example, I have a "book" tag and a "books" tag - I realized and switched all my posts over to the "books" tag, but that stupid "book" tag still shows up on my list. GO AWAY, BOOK!)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

SO weird--I responded to this hours ago. My LJ has been a little twitchy lately. But I know you can do it manually, but I wanted a lazier fix :)

You can actually get rid of the old tags! By using the Manage Tags feature. (As desdenova notes below, too!

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can do this! (I have had similar issues with superfluous tags.) It's really easy. In your profile page, go to Journal -> Manage Tags. From there you can select a tag, and rename it. It will replace the old tag with the new one on all posts. This is how I consolidated "doctor who" and "dr. who," for example.

ETA: You can also use the Manage Tags list to remove tags from your list-o-tags, so that once you rename "bounce!!" to "bounce!" you can eliminate "bounce!!" from the tag list.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

You know, I saw that --but if I have a tag already named what I want to rename the other tag to --it doesn't work. Most infuriating. Or am I just doing it wrong?

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'm sure it worked before. Maybe it's a glitch connected to the various reconfigurations they're doing?

ANYWAY, a workaround would be to use a placeholder tag: rename "bounce!" and "bounce!!" to "temp", remove "bounce!" and "bounce!!", then rename "temp" to "bounce!". That's more complicated than it should be, but it'll work.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

What's weird is that it's never worked for me. So I just tried it again --I thought your idea was a great one. I renamed fitness to 'temp' and it worked fine. Then I tried to rename 'working out' to temp, and the screen refreshes as before, but working out remains untouched.

I would think it's a glitch, but it's how it's always behaved for me. Maybe it used to work when you tried it and has been broken since then. Oh well, I can just get over it!