At the top of the WordPress All Posts page there’s a drop-down which allows you to filter posts based on a category. Currently however no such drop-down exists for tags.
Nevertheless, it’s still possible to filter posts based on tags using one of two methods:
- Using the tags column
- Using a tag filter URL
Using the Tag Column
To do this we first need to enable the Tags column which is not displayed by default.
- In the All posts click on the Screen Options tab, put a check-mark on the Tag option then Apply.
- Once the column is revealed click on any tag to show only posts that have that tag.
To remove the filter, click on the All link just below the Posts title.
Using a Tag Filter URL
You can also filter posts based tags by loading a URL in the following format:
https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/edit.php?tag=posttag
So for instance if you want to show only posts that contain the tag WordPress, then you would load the following URL:
https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/edit.php?tag=wordpress
For a tag with containing multiple words, add hyphens to separate the words. e.g. for the tag WordPress Tutorials you would load:
https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/edit.php?tag=wordpress-tutorials
To show all posts that contain two tags that are similar use:
https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/edit.php?tag=tag1+tag2
Note that the plus here acts similar to the AND operator which means it will only show posts that contain both tags and not just one of them.
Use the same principle to filter posts with similar multiple tags:
https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/edit.php?tag=tag1+tag2+tag3
To show all posts that contain either of the tags use a comma instead of the plus:
https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/edit.php?tag=tag1,tag2
The comma here acts like the OR operator so it should load all posts that have any of the tags. WordPress will encode the comma to its Unicode equivalent (%2C) once it finishes loading.
As such, you can also use %2C instead of the comma i.e.
https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/edit.php?tag=tag1%2Ctag2%2Ctag3
For both cases above don’t forget to add hyphens for tags that contain multiple words e.g.
https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/edit.php?tag=wordpress+gutenberg-blocks
https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/edit.php?tag=wordpress%2Cgutenberg-blocks
Now here’s a bonus trick for you: all the above also works for Categories so you don’t have to be limited to filtering posts on just one category using the dropdown.
