How to add bash tags to a mod w/o Wrye Bash?

[7531Leonidas]

I am currently running a mod list of over 2000 mods (a lot of graphics mods are in there), and the latest version of WB started bashing things it had not on the previous version I had.  I currently have eight mods that need to have records placed in the bashed patch (I make all such adjustments in SSEEdit) that are not picked up as masters for the bashed patch.  When I add the records, SSEEdit requires me to add each one as a master to the bpatch.  I run WB as a tool in Vortex.

1.  Am I right that I will need to add bash tags to the eight mods to be able to manipulate/add their records to the bashed patch?

2.  How do I use SSEEdit to add bash tags to the eight laggards?  (I have the list of tags for Skyrim from the adv. bash readme.)

I got very upset when I found out that editing the bashed patch w/these eight in xEdit caused the patch to no longer recognize almost all of my edits, due to the reordering of masters.  That's about 1-1/2 hours plus of work.  A real catch-22.

Thanks, all!