Main points:

• Tags are edited in Rotation - Tags.
• If you don't specify tags separately during import, they are created automatically from the description (Autocreate tags - create tags from description if no tags imported in Rotation - Settings)

Three tag statuses are available:

Regular - New tags (auto-created or imported) display by default on gallery pages.

Active (Cloud) - Tags you manually promote appear in the tag cloud (`<tag_cloud>`). You might have 10,000 total tags but only 50 popular ones in the cloud. These are ALSO shown on gallery pages, so galleries display both Regular and Active tags.

Delete on import - Tag mapping for import—for example, rename “cars” to “car” to avoid duplicate tags.

Tag cloud:

• You can automatically activate the top 10% of the most popular tags
• Stop words from the Rotation Settings - Banned tags list do not automatically get into the tag cloud

The whitelist is a pre-filter. Only words in the Rotation Settings - Tags whitelist become tags, so you don't have to sort through unwanted words later.

Whitelist format is simple:

tag1
tag2,tag2_synonym1,tag2_synonym2,

Place each tag on a new line. If a line has multiple tags, the remaining tags are treated as synonyms and replaced with the first tag.

The whitelist supports two special characters:

- `^` (start of word) - `$` (end of word)

For example, the tag `bus` matches both “bus” and “busty” because it searches for word occurrence. To match “bus” exactly, use `^bus$`. The pattern `bus$` matches “superbus” but not “buses”, while `^bus` matches “buses” but not “superbus”.

You can reassign tags to galleries in the menu. This is useful if you didn't initially use a whitelist but decide to enable one later. The script will process gallery descriptions and create tags regardless of whitelist settings. Existing tags in Rotation - Tags remain unchanged.

The script automatically selects the best thumb for each active tag. Find settings in Rotation - Tube - Settings.

For example:

<tag_cloud num=1-10>
<!--TAG_NAME--> and further you can add any tags characteristic for thumbs, for example <!--THUMB_URL--> which will display the best thumb for this tag
</tag_cloud>

Note that thumbs are selected only for active tags, adding server load.

Tag thumbs rotate the same way category thumbs do. For example:

<tag_cloud num=1-10 order=clicks>
<a target=_blank href='/tag/<!--TAG_NAME-->/?<!--THUMB_LINK-->'><img src='<!--THUMB_URL-->'></a>
</tag_cloud>

The tag thumb will start counting CTR and display based on it, similar to how category thumbs work.

<tag_cloud num=1-10>
<!--TAG_NAME--> and further you can add any tags characteristic for thumbs, for example <!--THUMB_URL--> which will display the best thumb for this tag
</tag_cloud>

Previously, there was no CTR-based sorting for tag thumbs. Now you can:

<tag_cloud num=1-10 order=clicks>
<!--TAG_NAME--> and further you can add any tags characteristic for thumbs, for example <!--THUMB_URL--> which will display the best thumb for this tag
</tag_cloud>

The script will display tag thumbs sorted by CTR.

In your rewrites, add a rule to count CTR (by default, clicks on tag thumbs aren't counted):

default

RewriteRule ^tag/(.*)/$ /scj/tube/index.php?tag=$1

need to change to

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.+)$
RewriteRule ^tag/(.*)/$ /scj/cgi/out.php?link=images/%{QUERY_STRING}&url=content&p=100&skip_to_cookie=true&skip_sell=true&tag=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^tag/(.*)/$ /scj/tube/index.php?tag=$1