vBulletin Manual - Tagging Options

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Enable Thread Tagging
This is a global option to enable or disable the thread tagging system. You may choose which usergroups can apply tags to threads in the usergroup permissions section.
Tag Minimum Length
The minimum number of characters in a tag name. This can be between 1 and 100.
Tag Maximum Length
The maximum number of characters in a tag name. This can be between 0 and 100.
Thread Tag Banned Words
These words will be checked in addition to those listed in includes/searchwords.php to form a list of words whose use is banned in tagging.

Separate each word with a space or carriage return.
Thread Tag Allowed Words
Words entered here will be allowed as tags, regardless of whether or not their use would be otherwise disallowed due to length, censorship, commonality etc.

If a word is specified in the 'Banned' words group and here, it will be allowed.

Separate each word with a space or carriage return.
Tag Separators
This option allows you to specify additional tag separators. Regardless of the value here, a comma will always be used as a separator.

Separate each tag separators with a space. If you would like to use a space in a tag separator, click the '?' for information on the advanced separator syntax.
Maximum Tags per Thread
The maximum total tags per thread. No users may add more tags than this to an individual thread.

0 disables this.
Maximum Tags Applied by Thread Starter
The maximum number of tags the thread starter can apply. Even if this setting allows it, the number of tags in a thread cannot exceed the "Maximum Tags per Thread" setting.

0 disables this limit. To prevent a user from tagging a thread, use user group permissions.
Maximum Tags Applied by Other Users
The maximum number of tags the users other than the thread starter can apply. Even if this setting allows it, the number of tags in a thread cannot exceed the "Maximum Tags per Thread" setting.

0 disables this limit. To prevent a user from tagging a thread, use user group permissions.
Force Tags to be Lower Case
If you enable this option, "A" through "Z" will be replaced with "a" through "z" in tag names. Other characters will not be changed.
Tag Cloud: Number of Tags
The maximum number of tags to display in the tag cloud.
Tag Cloud: Number of Levels
The number of levels to be shown in the tag cloud.

By default, there are 5 levels named level1 to level5, with the font size growing from its smallest size at level 1 to its largest at level 5.

Increasing this value above 5 requires a template change.
Tag Cloud: Cache Time
Amount of time in minutes before the tag cloud data cache is regenerated.

A value of 0 will generate the tag cloud on each view.
Tag Cloud: Usage History (Days)
The number of days worth of data that should be used to generate the usage-based tag cloud here.

Tags added more than this many days ago will not change the size of the link in the cloud.
Tag Cloud: Build Usergroup
The tag cloud pulls together data from threads in many forums. Users may not be able to see all the threads that make up the tag cloud results. With this option, you can force the tag cloud to be built as if it were viewed by a particular usergroup.

Live permission checking is the most accurate, but disables the above specified caching.
Enable Search Tag Cloud
This option controls whether a tag cloud relating to the frequency of tag searches is shown at the bottom of the advanced search.

A usage-based tag cloud is always shown here.
Search Tag Cloud: History (Days)
Amount of days that the system will keep a record of tag searches for use in the search tag cloud.

0 means to use all data available.