There are tags that have been created through months of work but are no longer in use. I'd like to delete them completely so that they don't show up as an option entirely.
Most forums, I'm only seeing a way to delete them from the product specifically. Anyway to fix this?
That still involves doing it to each product, the OP is looking for a quicker and easier solution, that isn't it.
Using a CSV file, he can use find and replace in the "Tags" column, and delete every instance with the click of mouse button, much less labour-intensive than your solution.
So I've been able to remove the individual tag from the product page but I'd like to remove the tag entirely off shopify so that it doesn't present itself as an option - is that makes sense?
To remove it from Shopify you need to remove all instances of it, the only way I know of to do that is by editing the CSV file, as I explained up there ^^