How to change the tags url in wordpress

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1. You can use a URL rewrite (documentation), either in a local .htaccess file or your main Apache VirtualHost file (assuming you are using Apache).

   This should do the trick:

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} s=(.+)
   RewriteRule ^/?(index.php)?$ /?tag=%1 [R,L]
   

   The above means that anyone visiting either http://yoursite.com/index.php?s=chromatography or http://yoursite.com/?s=chromatography will see that URL int he address bar, but WordPress will understand it as meaning
   http://yoursite.com/?tag=chromatography

   So the tag behaviour will function as expected.

   To change the URL which wordpress itself puts out for tags, you can apply a filter, as mentioned in the documentation for get_tag_link.

   For that, add something like the below to your theme’s functions.php file:

   function my_custom_tag_link($taglink, $tag_id) {
     return str_replace($taglink, '?tag=', '?s=');
   }
   add_filter('tag_link', 'my_custom_tag_link', 10, 2);
   

   N.B. That PHP code is not tested, but as far as I can tell should do the trick.

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