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  ourfranciscanfiat · Member · Mar 3, 2015 at 3:11 am

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  I was wondering if there’s a way to hid tags so they don’t clutter up my page. I do want search engines and WordPress to find my blog with these tags, but would prefer that my readers didn’t have to scroll past them. Thanks

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 3, 2015 at 8:14 am

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  Hi there. The only way I know of to prevent tags from displaying if your theme shows them is by editing the theme’s CSS for which you’ll need the Custom Design upgrade. You can disable tag display in your blog feed under Settings ->Reading, but I think that only applies to outside feeds like the Reader, not to your blog itself:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/reading-settings/#enhanced-feeds

  You can post your question in the CSS customisation forum for info on what code will be needed to hide the tags: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform

  See here for more info on the custom design upgrade:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/

  I also notice that you’re using a lot of tags. Please note that if you use more than fifteen tags and categories combined on a post that will prevent your posts from appearing in topic listings in the Reader, so it’s actually making it harder for people to find your blog. Rather use fewer tags and make sure they’re all relevant to your content. See here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/
  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2015/02/12/tagging-shelf-life/

  Also, FWIW, search engines like Google don’t use tags to index your posts, but rather keywords in the post title and content. The tags are only used internally on WordPress.com.