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tags plugins
318 plugins in the directory carry the tags tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
318
plugins
239,830+
combined reach
39
released in 90 days
78%
quiet 18 months+
4
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Aug 2026 | Automated Related Posts by Tags | inventivo | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 24 Aug 2026 | Qwebmaster AI Auto Tagger | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 22 Aug 2026 | WP Required Taxonomies – Categories and Tags Mandatory | 1,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 22 Aug 2026 | Require Categories when Creating Products – WooCommerce | 10+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Library Assistant Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit. | 70,000+ | 4.8★ | today |
| Meta Tag Manager Easily add and manage custom meta tags to various parts of your site or on individual posts, such as Yahoo and Google verification tags. | 70,000+ | 4.8★ | 4 months ago |
| Post Tags and Categories for Pages Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages. | 20,000+ | 4.8★ | 8 months ago |
| Essential Widgets Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option | 10,000+ | 3.5★ | 3 months ago |
| Tag Pages Add tags to Pages, just as you would do with Posts | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Visual Term Description Editor Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Flexible Posts Widget An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like! | 7,000+ | 4.6★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget This plugin aims to be the most configurable tag cloud widget out there, able to suit all your weird tag cloud needs. | 4,000+ | 4.6★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms Tag Groups allows you to organize your WordPress taxonomy terms and show them in clouds, tabs, accordions, tables, lists and much more. | 3,000+ | 4.8★ | 19 days ago |
| SEO Auto Linker SEO Auto Linker assists in creating cornerstone SEO content. This is not a full replacement for SEO plugins. | 3,000+ | 4.3★ | 21 months ago · quiet |
| Configurable Tag Cloud (CTC) Display a tag cloud customized with your preferences in the sidebar. | 2,000+ | 3.7★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| OG Tags OG Tags includes the tags necessary to integrate your website to Facebook with almost no configuration. Automatic. Simple. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 12 months ago |
| Page Tagger Page Tagger is a Wordpress plugin which lets you tag your pages just like you do with your posts. It adds a tagging widget in the page-editing view in … | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Taxonomy Dropdown Widget Creates a dropdown list of non-hierarchical taxonomies as an alternative to the term (tag) cloud. Formerly known as Tag Dropdown Widget. | 2,000+ | 4.7★ | 8 months ago |
| Attachment Taxonomies This plugin adds categories and tags to the WordPress media library - lightweight and developer-friendly. | 1,000+ | 4.6★ | 23 days ago |
| Auto Tag Creator Automatically creates tags from post/product title and category, on update or publish. | 1,000+ | 4.5★ | 4 months ago |
| Bulk Term Generator – Import multiple tags, categories, and taxonomies easily Streamline taxonomy management in WordPress with Bulk Term Generator, your free tool for easy, bulk term importing. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Categorized Tag Cloud A cloud with the most used tags in a sidebar widget, filtered by post category. | 1,000+ | 3.8★ | 24 days ago |
| Custom Recent Posts Widget A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags | 1,000+ | 4.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP Required Taxonomies – Categories and Tags Mandatory Force users to select a taxonomy term when publishing posts. For example, make category or tags required | 1,000+ | 4.1★ | 15 days ago |
| Require Post Category Require users to choose a post category before updating or publishing a post. | 1,000+ | 4.9★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Taxonomy List Widget Creates a list (bulleted, number, or custom) of non-hierarchical taxonomies as an alternative to the term (tag) cloud. Formerly known as Tag List Widg … | 1,000+ | 4.3★ | 8 months ago |
| TagPages Adds post-tags functionality for pages. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| xili-tidy-tags xili-tidy-tags is a tool for grouping tags by semantic groups or by language and for creating tidy tag clouds. | 1,000+ | 4.5★ | 17 months ago |
| Bulk Add Terms A lightweight plugin to add thousands of taxonomy terms in one go. | 800+ | 3.9★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| JSM Show Term Metadata Show term metadata in a metabox when editing terms - a great tool for debugging issues with term metadata. | 800+ | — | 16 days ago |
| Mass Delete Unused Tags Deletes all unused tags, handy tool if you want to start over with a quick clean blog. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes Convert taxonomy tags to checkboxes in the WordPress admin area. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 6 months ago |
| Auto SEO META keywords (META tags keywords) optimization + WooCommerce META TAGS for SEO allows you to display custom META Keywords strategically (based on Yoast / Rank Math in some cases) to boost your ranking on search … | 700+ | 3.0★ | 1 month ago |
| Already Existing Tags Looks for already existing tags within your posts. | 500+ | 4.6★ | 5 years ago · quiet |
| Page Tag Cloud This plugin allows you to add tags to pages and display them in a tag cloud widget. | 500+ | 4.0★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Tag Cloud Shortcode The plugin enables any page or post author to include a Tag Cloud by using a shortcode instead of hacking theme template files. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| Automatic Product Categories for WooCommerce Automatically assign WooCommerce product categories and tags using smart, rule-based automation. Save time managing products at scale. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 30 days ago |
| Oomph Hidden Tags Hide certain tags from tag lists and tag clouds. Allow capable users to see hidden tags with the see_hidden_tags capability. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Simple Taxonomy Refreshed This plugin provides a no-code facility to manage your taxonomies - either by defining your own or by adding additional function to existing ones. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 3 days ago |
| azurecurve Tag Cloud Displays a tag cloud with easy control of settings and exclusion of tags from the cloud. | 300+ | 4.5★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| Most Popular Tags Most Popular Tags is a plugin that displays your WordPress site's most popular tags, categories and custom taxonomies as a sidebar widget. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| 1ON1 URL REDIRECTS Easily redirect pages, posts and tags or custom post types to another page or post or external URL by specifying the redirect URL. | 200+ | — | 5 months ago |
| Auto-tags Automatically add relevant tags to new posts. | 200+ | 4.1★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| Category For Pages Adds categories and tags functionality for your pages. | 200+ | 3.7★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Random Tags Cloud Widget Random Tags Cloud displays your tags by selecting randomly. Of course, you can customize other tag cloud's settings. | 200+ | — | 17 years ago · quiet |
| Search by Product Tag for Woocommerce Extend the search functionality of woocommerce to include searching of product tags. | 200+ | 4.9★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Tags to Keywords Add tags in head of page as meta's keywords | 200+ | 5.0★ | 4 months ago |
| Add Meta Tag For WordPress this plugin that you can add metadata your web site for more efficient indexing and easier sharing of your content. | 100+ | 3.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Category Description Widget Enables a widget with the category description. | 100+ | 2.3★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Cat + Tag Filter This plugin adds a widget to your WordPress site that gives your visitors an ability to filter all your posts by a category or/and tag. | 100+ | 4.2★ | 13 years ago · quiet |
| Tag Widget A more customizable solution than the default wordpress tag cloud. | 100+ | 1.0★ | 13 years ago · quiet |
| Doc’s Auto-tags Assigns tags and/or categories to posts containing specific text strings, handy for filtering within the loop. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Easy Content Lists Shortcodes for easily listing all your pages, posts, taxonomies, and tags. | 100+ | — | 9 months ago |
| Empty Tags Remover Really simple plugin. It just removes all your empty tags on demand. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 21 months ago · quiet |
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