Steps to reproduce the issue

I needed a module that shows a manual selection of tags; as far as I know this is not possible at present using Joomla core modules. However I found a way to add this option with just one line of code to the module Tags Popular.

I contacted Roland Dalmulder about his and he advised me to submit as a Pull Request to add this line to the core. I'm not sure how to create a pull request so if I'm doing this wrong I hope that someone will be so kind to help me ?

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Additional comments

In mod_tags_popular.xml I added an extra option to the parameter field order_value. See attached txt file for the code of this option.

If selected, the module shows the tags in the order as set manually in the Tags component. This can be combined with setting the maximum number of tags in order to create your custom selection (up to the overall maximum of 20).

Please note that in this case the module does not take into account the "popularity" of the tag. This is exactly as I needed but it may conflict with the idea of the module: showing popular tags. However, the Random option of the module doesn't take that into account either (as a matter of fact, when selecting my cusom option the execution of the module script follows the same 'logical path' through the code as when selecting the Random option).

It might be a good idea to add some instruction about this. Apart from that, I think this offers some nice extra fuctionality and I was surprised at how easy it was to add this.

Kind regards,

Frits Jongbloets