# Basic question abt tags

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-question-abt-tags/114630>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [September 17, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-question-abt-tags/114630 "2007-09-17T13:23:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-question-abt-tags/114630/1 "2007-09-17T13:23:20Z")

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This is a very simple question about extensions & tags - in the  
literature that I’ve seen, it’s not clear if I can define tags without  
creating an extension first. (sorry if I missed something in the  
tutorials)

I’d like to create a bunch of tags to automatically create links in a  
block of text and it doesn’t really require all the things that an  
extension seems to do 😛

Also, is there a tag or theme repository for Radiant?

Cheers,  
Mohit.  
9/14/2007 | 1:34 AM.

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**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-question-abt-tags/114630/2 "2007-09-17T13:25:21Z")

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Extensions are the “Right way” of doing it. Simply because an extension  
offers more doesn’t mean you need to use it all. Note the markdown and  
textile filter extensions that are included in the standard  
distribution. They don’t do anything but define text filters.

That said, you could write a plugin (in the traditional Rails sense) and  
put the hook code in the plugin instead of the “activate” method of an  
extension.

Sean

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**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-question-abt-tags/114630/3 "2007-09-25T23:01:14Z")

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Hi Sean,

Thanks for the qick reply! Just wanted to be sure that there wasn’t  
another simpler thing that allowed creation of only tags. I guess I’ll  
just create an ‘extension’ that includes all my site-specific tags.  
Other extensions can be for more general things.

Cheers,  
Mohit.  
9/14/2007 | 1:53 AM.