How tags are found

There's no separate list of tags to maintain in the app. Every tag comes from the articles already published in your blogs. If an article carries a tag in Shopify, the app finds it.

The crawl

A background job reads through your blogs and articles, collecting every tag in use and counting how many articles carry each one. It runs:

• Automatically once a night.
• On demand, whenever you click Refresh tags, available on the Home page, the Blogs page, and each individual blog's page.
• Once, right after installing.

The count next to each tag, and the "most articles" ordering mode, both come from this crawl, not from a live count. That's deliberate: counting on every page load would mean a network round-trip on every storefront visit, and the difference between an exact live count and one that's up to a day old isn't worth that cost.

A tag you just added won't show up immediately

If you tag a new article and switch straight to the app, that tag won't appear until the next crawl. Click Refresh tags to pull it in immediately rather than waiting for the nightly run.

Removed and renamed tags

If you remove a tag from every article, or a blog is deleted, the next crawl reflects that. Tags that no longer exist stop appearing as options, though a display rename you'd set for one (see Showing, hiding and renaming tags) is simply dropped along with it rather than causing an error.