Best tag cloud plugins for WordPress
The most popular tag cloud plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. PublishPress Taxonomies leads with 40K+ active installs, ahead of Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget (4K+) and PublishPress Tag Groups (3K+). All 44 plugins tagged “tag cloud” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 tag cloud plugins
- 1.
PublishPress TaxonomiesThe most installed tag cloud plugin, with 40K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 195 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 2.Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget
4K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 49 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 3.
PublishPress Tag Groups3K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 58 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 4.Configurable Tag Cloud (CTC)
2K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 10 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 5.
HTML5 Cumulus1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 11 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 6.Tag Cloud Shortcode
500+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 7.
Page Tag Cloud400+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 8.
Ultimate Tag Cloud Elementor Addon400+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 months ago.
- 9.
azurecurve Tag Cloud300+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.0.
- 10.Random Tags Cloud Widget
200+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.
All 44 plugins tagged “tag cloud”

PublishPress Taxonomies
#810by PublishPress5 days ago
Tags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with PublishPress Taxonomies. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tag …
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.6(195)
- Downloads
- 1.9K/day
Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget
Down in the last 7 days:5#3,455by Rickard Andersson9 years ago
This plugin aims to be the most configurable tag cloud widget out there, able to suit all your weird tag cloud needs.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.6(49)
- Downloads
- 18/day

PublishPress Tag Groups
Down in the last 7 days:60#3,812by PublishPress26 days ago
PublishPress Tag Groups allows you to organize your WordPress taxonomy terms and show them in clouds, tabs, accordions, tables, lists and much more.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(58)
- Downloads
- 46/day
Configurable Tag Cloud (CTC)
Down in the last 7 days:7#4,616by Keith S.3 years ago
Display a tag cloud customized with your preferences in the sidebar.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.7(10)
- Downloads
- 20/day

HTML5 Cumulus
Down in the last 7 days:10#5,464by Flector1 year ago
A modern (HTML5) version of the classic “WP-Cumulus” plugin.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Tag Cloud Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:23#9,019by D'Arcy Norman7 years ago
The plugin enables any page or post author to include a Tag Cloud by using a shortcode instead of hacking theme template files.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Page Tag Cloud
Down in the last 7 days:27#9,174by Barry Kooij3 years ago
This plugin allows you to add tags to pages and display them in a tag cloud widget.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ultimate Tag Cloud Elementor Addon
Up in the last 7 days:24#9,931by RSTheme3 months ago
Ultimate Tag Cloud enhances tag display with dynamic loading, Elementor integration, and stylish layouts for better taxonomy organization.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

azurecurve Tag Cloud
Up in the last 7 days:11#10,853by azurecurve8 years ago
Displays a tag cloud with easy control of settings and exclusion of tags from the cloud.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Random Tags Cloud Widget
Down in the last 7 days:21#12,246by yakuphan18 years ago
Random Tags Cloud displays your tags by selecting randomly. Of course, you can customize other tag cloud's settings.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Muki Tag Cloud
Down in the last 7 days:44#14,677by Muki Wu9 years ago
Another wordpress tag cloud plugin based on jQCloud, which is creative, beauty and colorful.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Post Tags and Archives
Down in the last 7 days:38#14,717by Thomas Schmall12 years ago
Display the Tag Cloud or the Archive directly in posts and pages, and change their look in the options.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tags Page
Up in the last 7 days:27#14,722by honza.skypala9 years ago
Adds a table listing all tags registered on your website.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tag Cloud Widget
Up in the last 7 days:17#17,468by Waterloo Plugins11 years ago
A tag cloud widget with links to your tag pages
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
TDO Tag Fixes
Down in the last 7 days:154#17,519by the_dead_one18 years ago
Some fixes and extensions for Wordpress tags such as a tag cloud using only tags found in a specific category and also tag and category intersection.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

3D WP Tag Cloud-S
Down in the last 7 days:269#18,891by hityr5yr8 years ago
3D WP Tag Cloud-S draws and animates an HTML5 canvas based tag cloud.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.0(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fox009 Color Tag Cloud
#19,299by fox0095 years ago
A beautiful, dynamic and colorful tag cloud.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Circle Tag Cloud
Down in the last 7 days:98#20,427by Edel Hearts / Yabe10 months ago
Displays taxonomy terms in a beautiful, highly packed circle (or rectangle) layout with customizable color palettes and motion effects.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Tag Display
#20,871by Ismail Nasry2 months ago
Tag Display is a WordPress plugin to display post tags with multiple templates, custom colors, and full control over output.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tag Cloud per Category
Down in the last 7 days:52#22,222by LordPretender9 years ago
This is an override of the native Tag cloud widget but filtered by the current category.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-TagCanvas
Up in the last 7 days:7#22,850by harryxuchn15 years ago
WP-TagCanvas is a plugin using Javascript class which will draw and animate a HTML5 canvas based tag cloud. It support three shape
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Color Bg Tag Cloud
Down in the last 7 days:6#23,040by Techzero7 years ago
A simple, yet very beautiful tag cloud.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Resize tag cloud
Down in the last 7 days:209#23,792by fpoller16 years ago
Allows for resizing of tag cloud font sizes from within the admin panel.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Combined Taxonomies Tag Cloud
Down in the last 7 days:295#25,960by keith_wp7 years ago
A widget to make tag clouds out of multiple taxonomies, across multiple post types and control their appearance.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Search Tag Cloud
Up in the last 7 days:58#28,482popular-searches-tag-cloud16 years ago
Show a Tag Cloud displaying the most popular searches performed by your users in your blog.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Colorful Tag Cloud
Up in the last 7 days:426#30,140by Arefly12 years ago
Colorful Your Blog's Tag Cloud. 為你部落格的標籤雲加上色彩
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Linear Tag Cloud
Down in the last 7 days:860#31,425by andrearufo14 years ago
A simple and clean tag cloud with a list of tags in percentual lines.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

3D WP Tag Cloud-M
Down in the last 7 days:282#32,200by hityr5yr8 years ago
3D WP Tag Cloud-M creates multiple 3D tag clouds widget.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

No Single Article Tags in Tag Cloud
#33,123by MP10 years ago
Removes tags with only one article from the tag cloud widget.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
My Tag Cloud
Up in the last 7 days:9,486#35,515by stratosg17 years ago
My tag cloud provides you with a widget that actually gives you the ability to list the tags of your posts in a diiferent way than a tag cloud.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Author Tag Cloud
#35,773by kegentile15 years ago
Creates a template tag to create an author specific tag cloud and creates a new permalink structure to drill down into content by author and tag.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Netlife’s Tag Cloud (FatCloud)
Up in the last 7 days:2,471#38,502netlifes-tag-cloud-fatcloud17 years ago
Netlife's Flash Tag Cloud plugin for WordPress - FatCloud! Wordle your WordPress. Beautiful tag clouds that are accessible & SEO friendly.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Colored Tag Cloud Listing
Down in the last 7 days:4,950#39,082by jp211211 years ago
Displays a tag cloud with some color options.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ACTUS Animated Tags
Down in the last 7 days:4,357#39,157by ACTUS anima4 years ago
Algorithmically Animated Tags. Random Post Tags or other taxonomies in different size, position and opacity, animated horizontally in various speed, o …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DynamicCategoryTagCloud
Down in the last 7 days:3,537#39,463by enomoto celtislab13 years ago
Displays the tag cloud dynamically from related articles belonging to the category of the display article
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

AH Sidebar Box
Down in the last 7 days:1,617#39,619by Andreas Hecht9 years ago
This widget adds a tabbed sidebar box with recent posts, last comments, categories, popular posts, a tag cloud and the archives to the sidebar.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tag List
#41,593by iworks (Marcin Pietrzak)3 months ago
Create clean, customizable tag lists instead of tag clouds.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Eight Degree Easy Tags
Up in the last 7 days:711#43,366by 8Degree Themes8 years ago
Eight Degree Easy Tags is very simple plugin that generates tags' cloud with simple setups.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ghost Tags
Down in the last 7 days:6,459#45,420by nuvuscripts14 years ago
Ghost Tags.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

OST 3D Image Tag Cloud
Down in the last 7 days:225#47,465by OpenSource Technologies Inc.1 month ago
Show your post tags as a rotating 3D cloud, using each tag's latest featured image.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Affiliate Link Plugin from BlashO
Up in the last 7 days:110#47,521by Ven Tesh8 years ago
AffiLinker automatically converts given keywords into Search Engine Friendly Affiliate Links (+colorful interactive links) throughout your blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Climate Tagger
#48,333by Aptivate10 years ago
Suggests tags for your posts based on an experts-vetted climate thesaurus, using the Climate Tagger API
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Dreamy Tags
Down in the last 7 days:956#56,161by Lewis E. Moten III9 months ago
Dreamy Tags displays a customizable tag cloud filtered by categories and tags for clean, meaningful blog and archive navigation.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Clouddy
#69,444by JacLas2 months ago
Visual tag cloud, sized and colored by popularity, with many ordering modes. Add as a block, shortcode, or widget — fully stylable with CSS.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day