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taxonomy plugins
300 plugins in the directory carry the taxonomy tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
300
plugins
1,361,170+
combined reach
60
released in 90 days
58%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06 Sep 2026 | Kwayy HTML Sitemap | 6,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 26 Aug 2026 | Advanced Views for Custom Fields and Posts | 3,000+ | reopened |
| 24 Aug 2026 | The Taxonomy Sort | 60+ | released after a long silence |
| 17 Aug 2026 | Advanced Views for Custom Fields and Posts | 3,000+ | closed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom Post Type UI Admin UI for creating custom content types like post types and taxonomies | 1,000,000+ | 4.6★ | 2 months ago |
| Search & Filter Search and Filtering for Custom Posts, Categories, Tags, Taxonomies, Post Dates and Post Types | 50,000+ | 4.5★ | 15 days ago |
| Remove Category URL – Remove 'category' base from category permalinks Remove Category URL strips the /category/ base from your category URLs, turning something like /category/my-category/ into simply /my-category/. | 40,000+ | 4.2★ | 17 days ago |
| Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms Tags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with TaxoPress. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tags and more. | 40,000+ | 4.6★ | 3 days ago |
| Essential Content Types Essential Content Types allows you to feature the impressive content through different content/post types on your website just the way you want it. | 20,000+ | 3.7★ | 3 months ago |
| Media Library Organizer – Folders, File Manager & Media Categories Create unlimited Media Library folders and subfolders to organize your files. Export Media Library folders, set default attributes & more. | 20,000+ | 4.7★ | 17 days ago |
| Radio Buttons for Taxonomies Replace the default taxonomy boxes with a custom metabox that uses radio buttons... effectively limiting each post to a single term in that taxonomy. | 20,000+ | 5.0★ | 19 months ago · quiet |
| Custom Post Type Widgets Custom Post Type Widgets plugin adds default custom post type widgets. | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 3 months ago |
| Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types Map your Gravity-Forms-generated posts to a custom post type and/or custom taxonomies. | 10,000+ | 4.4★ | 1 month ago |
| Posts in Page Easily add one or more posts to any page using simple shortcodes. | 10,000+ | 4.4★ | 7 years ago · quiet |
| Related Posts by Taxonomy Display a list of related posts on your site based on the most terms in common. Supports thumbnails, shortcodes, a widget and more. | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 16 days ago |
| Term Management Tools Allows you to merge terms, move terms between taxonomies, and set term parents, individually or in bulk. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 9 months ago |
| Unique Headers Add unique custom header images to individual pages, posts, categories, or tags. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 4 months ago |
| Taxonomy Images Associate images from your media library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies. | 9,000+ | 4.4★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Advanced Query Loop Transform your Query Loop blocks into powerful, flexible content engines! 🚀 | 6,000+ | 4.6★ | 6 days ago |
| Kwayy HTML Sitemap Generate a clean, SEO-friendly HTML sitemap for WordPress. Supports Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and WooCommerce. | 6,000+ | 4.7★ | yesterday |
| WP Term Order Sort taxonomy terms, your way. | 6,000+ | 4.8★ | 5 months ago |
| Admin Taxonomy Filter Filter posts or custom post types in the admin area by custom taxonomies. | 5,000+ | 4.5★ | 11 months ago |
| Brands for WooCommerce Brands for WooCommerce plugin allows you to add brands for products in your shop. | 5,000+ | 4.8★ | 12 days ago |
| HTML Import 2 Imports well-formed HTML files into WordPress pages. | 5,000+ | 4.3★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| JC Submenu JC Submenu plugin allows you to automatically populate your navigation menus with custom post_types, taxonomies, or child pages. | 4,000+ | 4.6★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| Remove Taxonomy Base Slug This plugin can remove specific taxonomy base slug from your permalinks (e.g. "/genre/fiction/" to "/fiction/"). | 4,000+ | 4.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Taxonomy Metadata Infrastructure plugin which implements metadata functionality for taxonomy terms, including for tags and categories. | 4,000+ | 4.6★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Advanced Views for Custom Fields and Posts Display content with full control over selection and layout. Lightweight and compatible with any theme or page builder. | 3,000+ | 4.8★ | 15 days ago |
| Select All Categories and Taxonomies, Change Checkbox to Radio Buttons Use radio buttons or checkboxes for your categories and custom taxonomies with this incredibly powerful and easy-to-use plugin. | 3,000+ | 4.3★ | 3 months ago |
| Taxonomy Thumbnail Add a thumbnail to your taxonomy terms. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 10 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★ | 18 days ago |
| Beautiful taxonomy filters Supercharge your custom post type archives by letting visitors filter posts by their terms/categories. This plugin handles the whole thing for you! | 2,000+ | 4.9★ | 18 days ago |
| Categories in Hierarchical Order Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin maintains the hierarchical order of categories list in the Category tab under your WordPress Admin Post Editor … | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Category Icon A WordPress plugin to attach an icon and/or image to taxonomy terms. | 2,000+ | 1.0★ | 24 days ago |
| Enhanced Category Pages Create custom enhanced pages for categories and any taxonomy term and manage them as a custom post. | 2,000+ | 4.4★ | 10 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 |
| Taxonomy Switcher Switch the taxonomy for all terms or only child terms of a specified parent term. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| WP Term Images Images for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms | 2,000+ | 4.6★ | 5 months ago |
| Post Category Filter (WP Admin) Quickly search and filter categories and taxonomies inside the WordPress admin. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 20 days ago |
| Advanced Custom Fields – Taxonomy Field add-on Adds a Taxonomy Field to Advanced Custom Fields. Select one or more taxonomy terms and assign them to the post. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| Archive Title Provides options to control an archive page title. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Categories Metabox Enhanced Replace the checkboxes with radio buttons or a select drop-down in the built-in Categories metabox and the Block Editor sidebar panel. | 1,000+ | 4.9★ | 2 months ago |
| I Order Terms Allows theme developers to add order/sort functionality for categories, tags and custom taxonomies. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 9 months ago |
| NS Category Widget A plugin to add widget for listing Categories and Taxonomies. Extending Default WordPress Category Widget. | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 12 months ago |
| Powerful Posts Per Page (PPPP) Posts per page for custom post types and taxonomies. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| Remove Taxonomy URL Strip custom taxonomy slugs from URLs. Optional 301 redirects, hierarchical terms, pagination support, and slug-collision detection. | 1,000+ | 4.2★ | 3 months ago |
| Rename Taxonomies by WebMan Customizes text and menu labels for any registered taxonomy using a simple interface. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 9 months 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 |
| WP Taxonomy Order WP Taxonomy Order is a plugin that allows for the ordering of taxonomy or category for WordPress. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| 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 |
| Taxonomy CSV Import Export Import and export WordPress taxonomy terms and users via CSV. Register custom taxonomies, create terms, and preview exports — all from the admin. | 900+ | 5.0★ | 29 days ago |
| Bulk Add Terms A lightweight plugin to add thousands of taxonomy terms in one go. | 800+ | 3.9★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
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