Best tags plugins for WordPress
The most popular tags plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Meta Tag Manager leads with 70K+ active installs, ahead of Media Library Assistant (70K+) and Post Tags and Categories for Pages (20K+). All 328 plugins tagged “tags” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 tags plugins
- 1.
Meta Tag ManagerThe most installed tags plugin, with 70K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 84 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Media Library Assistant70K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 202 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.Post Tags and Categories for Pages
20K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 23 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.Visual Term Description Editor
10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 21 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 5.Essential Widgets
10K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 4 months ago.
- 6.Tag Pages
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 18 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.0.
- 7.
Flexible Posts Widget7K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 56 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 8.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.
- 9.
PublishPress Tag Groups3K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 58 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 10.
SEO Auto Linker3K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 16 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
All 328 plugins tagged “tags”

Meta Tag Manager
Down in the last 7 days:2#599by Marcus (aka @msykes)1 month ago
Easily add and manage custom meta tags to various parts of your site or on individual posts, such as Yahoo and Google verification tags.
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.8(84)
- Downloads
- 145/day

Media Library Assistant
#609by David Lingren10 days ago
Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.8(202)
- Downloads
- 1.1K/day
Post Tags and Categories for Pages
#1,359by curtismchale10 months ago
Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.8(23)
- Downloads
- 68/day
Visual Term Description Editor
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,520by Shea Bunge2 years ago
Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(21)
- Downloads
- 53/day
Essential Widgets
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,814by Catch Themes4 months ago
Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 68/day
Tag Pages
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,912by BjornW4 years ago
Add tags to Pages, just as you would do with Posts
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(18)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Flexible Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,511by DaveE9 years ago
An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.7(56)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,456by 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
- 22/day

PublishPress Tag Groups
Down in the last 7 days:56#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

SEO Auto Linker
Down in the last 7 days:11#4,065by Arjan Olsder1 year ago
SEO Auto Linker assists in creating cornerstone SEO content. This is not a full replacement for SEO plugins.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.3(16)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Configurable Tag Cloud (CTC)
Down in the last 7 days:7#4,615by Keith S.3 years ago
Display a tag cloud customized with your preferences in the sidebar.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.7(10)
- Downloads
- 22/day

OG Tags
Down in the last 7 days:11#5,009by Mário Valney1 year ago
OG Tags includes the tags necessary to integrate your website to Facebook with almost no configuration. Automatic. Simple.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Page Tagger
Down in the last 7 days:16#5,067by hiddentao9 years ago
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 …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Taxonomy Dropdown Widget
Down in the last 7 days:15#5,102by Erick Hitter9 months ago
Creates a dropdown list of non-hierarchical taxonomies as an alternative to the term (tag) cloud. Formerly known as Tag Dropdown Widget.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.7(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Taxonomy List Widget
Up in the last 7 days:14#5,224by Erick Hitter9 months ago
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 …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.3(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Bulk Term Generator
Down in the last 7 days:30#5,501by Nate Allen2 years ago
Streamline taxonomy management in WordPress with Bulk Term Generator, your free tool for easy, bulk term importing.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(18)
- Downloads
- 18/day
Custom Recent Posts Widget
Up in the last 7 days:15#5,766by Prasanna SP9 years ago
A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Categorized Tag Cloud
Down in the last 7 days:7#5,793by whiletrue2 months ago
A cloud with the most used tags in a sidebar widget, filtered by post category.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.8(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Required Taxonomies
Up in the last 7 days:8#5,815by Jose Vega2 months ago
Force users to select a taxonomy term when publishing posts. For example, make category or tags required
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.1(8)
- Downloads
- 32/day

TagPages
Up in the last 7 days:10#6,262by Bernhard Riedl9 years ago
Adds post-tags functionality for pages.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Require Post Category
Down in the last 7 days:11#6,887by Josh Hartman2 years ago
Require users to choose a post category before updating or publishing a post.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(11)
- Downloads
- 69/day

Attachment Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:7#6,911by Felix Arntz2 months ago
This plugin adds categories and tags to the WordPress media library - lightweight and developer-friendly.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(10)
- Downloads
- 88/day

xili-tidy-tags
Down in the last 7 days:38#6,941by Michel - xiligroup dev1 year ago
xili-tidy-tags is a tool for grouping tags by semantic groups or by language and for creating tidy tag clouds.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 15/day

JSM Show Term Metadata
Up in the last 7 days:2#7,537by JS Morisset10 days ago
Show term metadata in a metabox when editing terms - a great tool for debugging issues with term metadata.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 22/day

Bulk Add Terms
Down in the last 7 days:23#7,640by Sohan Zaman8 years ago
A lightweight plugin to add thousands of taxonomy terms in one go.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 3.9(17)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Mass Delete Unused Tags
Down in the last 7 days:7#7,776by ramon fincken3 years ago
Deletes all unused tags, handy tool if you want to start over with a quick clean blog.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes
Down in the last 7 days:34#8,027by runthings.dev8 months ago
Convert taxonomy tags to checkboxes in the WordPress admin area.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Auto SEO META keywords (META tags keywords) optimization + WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:45#8,600by Pagup29 days ago
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 …
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Already Existing Tags
Down in the last 7 days:14#9,002by digitalemphasis5 years ago
Looks for already existing tags within your posts.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.6(7)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Tag Cloud Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:39#9,021by 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:20#9,173by 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
Oomph Hidden Tags
Down in the last 7 days:3#9,297by Ben Doherty (Oomph, Inc)10 years ago
Hide certain tags from tag lists and tag clouds. Allow capable users to see hidden tags with the see_hidden_tags capability.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Simple Taxonomy Refreshed
Down in the last 7 days:4#9,421by nwjames1 month ago
This plugin provides a no-code facility to manage your taxonomies - either by defining your own or by adding additional function to existing ones.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Automatic Product Categories for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:101#9,745by BerryPress25 days ago
Automatically assign WooCommerce product categories and tags using smart, rule-based automation. Save time managing products at scale.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 17/day

azurecurve Tag Cloud
Down in the last 7 days:58#10,898by 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
- 6/day
Tags to Keywords
Down in the last 7 days:24#11,154by CheGevara295 months ago
Add tags in head of page as meta's keywords
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Most Popular Tags
Down in the last 7 days:72#11,158by maxpagels11 years ago
Most Popular Tags is a plugin that displays your WordPress site's most popular tags, categories and custom taxonomies as a sidebar widget.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Search by Product Tag for Woocommerce
Down in the last 7 days:14#11,215by mattsgarage12 years ago
Extend the search functionality of woocommerce to include searching of product tags.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.9(15)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Smart Tag Insert
Down in the last 7 days:18#11,928by Stefano2 months ago
Automatically adds most relevant tags to posts selecting them from an admin-defined list.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
1ON1 URL REDIRECTS
Down in the last 7 days:15#12,087by Marketing1on16 months ago
Easily redirect pages, posts and tags or custom post types to another page or post or external URL by specifying the redirect URL.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/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

Category For Pages
Down in the last 7 days:31#12,372by A. H. M. Anawar Parvez9 years ago
Adds categories and tags functionality for your pages.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Auto-tags
Down in the last 7 days:46#12,886by jfoucher14 years ago
Automatically add relevant tags to new posts.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.1(20)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fewer Tags Free
Down in the last 7 days:121#13,250by Progress Planner7 months ago
This plugin minimizes the effect of having too many tags by setting a minimum number of posts needed for a tag to be “live” on your site.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
EZ Related Posts Footer Links and Widget
Down in the last 7 days:41#13,289by Eli1 year ago
Display a linked list of related Posts by Tags or Categories at the bottom of every post or on the sidebar. Options to show Post Date and Excerpts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Title to Terms Ultimate
Up in the last 7 days:4,072#13,578by Tom Belknap7 years ago
The ultimate auto-tagging plugin for WordPress.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP_Multilingual
Down in the last 7 days:17#13,840by Oleg Butuzov18 years ago
WP_Multilingual is extension that brings WordPress multilingual support. With it's help you can publish more that in one language at a time.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Description Widget
Up in the last 7 days:32#13,919by Dominik Schwind9 years ago
Enables a widget with the category description.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Required Fields
Down in the last 7 days:129#14,015by NikosTsolakos8 years ago
Required Fields can help you write your Posts, Pages without forgetting fields, if you forget something you'll be alerted about that!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.4(7)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Easy Content Lists
Down in the last 7 days:296#14,133by Razorfrog Web Design3 days ago
Shortcodes for easily listing all your pages, posts, taxonomies, and tags.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day