Did you know you can “tag” people in your TNG photos? This is a very helpful feature when more than one people are in the picture, as it helps visitors quickly determine who is who. Here’s what that looks like:

Note how each person has a box around their face, along with the name directly underneath. Also, each face and name is a link back to that person’s page.

I should also say that the boxes are not visible initially. I made them all visible at once by clicking the “Toggle Tags” button near the top. Clicking that button again hides all the tags again.

New in TNG v15 is the box in the upper left, which becomes visible after clicking the “Show tags” button in the middle. That shows all the people who are tagged, but does not reveal those tags. Visitors can reveal the tag areas one at a time by clicking on the names in the list box (or turn them off in the same way). When a tag is hidden, a visitor can also reveal it by holding their mouse pointer over the tag area. Try it!

Tags are added in the TNG Admin area. Starting from Admin >> Media, look up and edit any image there. Then on the Edit Media page, scroll down to the “Image Tags” section and click the title to expand the area.

Now you’ll see the image, with an explanation of how to create new tags and how to move or delete existing ones. To create a new tag, just hold your mouse pointer (now a crosshairs) over the image, then press and hold down your left mouse button and drag down and to the right to create a box, then release.

At that point a popup will appear where you can search for someone by name (or part of a name). When you see the right person, click their name to select and link that person to the new tag.

And take note that you can also link families, sources, repositories, source citations, and places to any spot in the image. Or…you can enter any text next to “Title” at the top, along with any URL as the destination.

Easy, right? Fun too! Plus, your relatives will think the result is very cool (once you convince them to come to the site, that is…am I right?).