Allow non customers (anyone) to add product tags

Question

Currently when anyone tries to add/write product tags onto a product, if they are not a customer it forces them to login or register.

Is there a way I can bypass this check and allow anyone to add product tags and ideally auto approve them so they don't go into the pending section?

Answer 1

Try to rewrite the action Mage_Tag_IndexController::saveAction and remove the authentication constraint.

    if(!$customerSession->authenticate($this)) {
        return;
    }

And for auto approval replace in the same method

->setStatus($tagModel->getPendingStatus())

with

->setStatus($tagModel->getApprovedStatus())