Best infrastructure plugins for WordPress
The most popular infrastructure plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Taxonomy Metadata leads with 4K+ active installs, ahead of Single Value Taxonomy UI (50+). All 3 plugins tagged “infrastructure” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 infrastructure plugins
- 1.
Taxonomy MetadataThe most installed infrastructure plugin, with 4K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 9 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
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Single Value Taxonomy UI50+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
All 3 plugins tagged “infrastructure”
Taxonomy Metadata
#3,376by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)9 years ago
Infrastructure plugin which implements metadata functionality for taxonomy terms, including for tags and categories.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Single Value Taxonomy UI
Up in the last 7 days:169#21,315by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)14 years ago
This infrastructure plugin adds basic UI for single-valued taxonomies, i.e. a taxonomy with presents a select widget.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day