# Inheriting existing tag objects

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inheriting-existing-tag-objects/154069>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [November 25, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inheriting-existing-tag-objects/154069 "2008-11-25T01:23:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![imakethings](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ce7236/32.png) [@imakethings](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imakethings)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inheriting-existing-tag-objects/154069/1 "2008-11-25T01:23:44Z")

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Is there a way to add functionality to an existing tag in radiant core?  
Let’s take the content tag for example. What I’ve done is simply copy  
and paste the entire tag code block into my new extension and simply  
added on to it from there?

Is there a better way to do this?

For a better idea of what I’m talking, check out the lib directory at  
[http://github.com/imakethings/radiant-summarize-extension](http://github.com/imakethings/radiant-summarize-extension)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🙂