Testing on WordPress Playground (PHP 8.0 – WP 6.2) … I edited the Hello World post and proceeded to add 84 tags to this one post and every one of those tags has the word ‘hello’; for example: ‘agency hello’, ‘agony hello’, and so on. My 84th tag is just ‘hello’. So after saving this post, I added a new post and then in the **Add New Tag** field I entered ‘hello’ to see the list of suggestions and ‘hello’ did not appear at all. What’s more, only 20 suggestions were provided by the field.
I might either create a new 85th ‘\* hello’ tag unnecessarily or make a lucky guess and match one of the other ‘\* hello’ tags.
And in order to use the ‘hello’ tag, I had to enter a comma, because pressing the Enter key will select one of the 20 other ‘\* hello’ tags suggested.
I traced the 20 tags search limit possibly to wp-admin/js/tags-suggest.js – **why is there a 20 count limit? Is there a filter to increase this limit?**
There is one query on the WP forums with a real world scenario as I described above. The asker thought their tags go missing ‘accidentally’.
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