Best taxonomies plugins for WordPress
The most popular taxonomies plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Post Types Unlimited leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of HTML Import 2 (5K+) and Simple CPT (4K+). All 80 plugins tagged “taxonomies” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 taxonomies plugins
- 1.
Post Types UnlimitedThe most installed taxonomies plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, updated 5 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.HTML Import 2
5K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 32 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 3.
Simple CPT4K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 9 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Bulk Edit Categories and Tags3K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 26 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 5.
Dynamic Fields Engine3K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 6.WP Required Taxonomies
1K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 8 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.
TagPages1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 8.
Attachment Taxonomies1K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 10 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.Easy WP Page Navigation
700+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 10 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 10.Simple Taxonomy Refreshed
400+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
All 80 plugins tagged “taxonomies”

Post Types Unlimited
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,735by WPExplorer5 months ago
Create unlimited custom post types and custom taxonomies.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 47/day
HTML Import 2
Up in the last 7 days:3#3,080by Stephanie Leary9 years ago
Imports well-formed HTML files into WordPress pages.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.3(32)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Simple CPT
Down in the last 7 days:12#3,602by George Pattichis2 months ago
Simple CPT provides an easy to use interface for registering and managing custom post types and custom taxonomies.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 27/day

Bulk Edit Categories and Tags
Down in the last 7 days:26#3,723by Jose Vega20 days ago
Modern Bulk Editor for Blog Categories and Tags, create and edit hundreds of categories in a spreadsheet inside wp-admin. Quick edits.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.5(26)
- Downloads
- 75/day

Dynamic Fields Engine
Up in the last 7 days:326#3,726by Roxnor19 days ago
Create custom post types in WordPress with custom fields, taxonomies, and meta fields. AI-powered WordPress metadata plugin.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 228/day
WP Required Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:46#5,851by 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:14#6,261by Bernhard Riedl9 years ago
Adds post-tags functionality for pages.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Attachment Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:7#6,904by 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
Easy WP Page Navigation
#7,622by PenciDesign10 years ago
Easy to add page navigation in your blog
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.8(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simple Taxonomy Refreshed
Up in the last 7 days:9#9,414by 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
WP Export Categories & Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:31#9,576by Damian12 years ago
Export Categories, Tags and Taxonomies
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.8(26)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Quick Bulk Term Taxonomy Creator
Down in the last 7 days:41#9,764by Marin Atanasov10 years ago
A handy tool for batch creation of taxonomy terms in your preferred hierarchy.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.9(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomy Checklist Tree
Down in the last 7 days:63#9,807by webvitalii6 years ago
Plugin sets Category/Taxonomy checklist hierarchical tree-view by default.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day
WP REST API
Up in the last 7 days:6#9,850by Andrew MAGIK10 years ago
This plugin include all available taxonomy attributes into the WordPress REST API (v2) without additional API requests.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Term Menu Order
Up in the last 7 days:17#10,536by Yoast14 years ago
Creates a 'menu_order' column to specify term order, allowing theme and plugin developers to sort term by menu order.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 4/day

Socius Marketing Page Taxonomy
Up in the last 7 days:33#10,689by sociusmarketing4 years ago
Adds 2 custom taxonomies (categories & areas served) to Pages for easy, dynamic archive listing.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

BulkPress
Down in the last 7 days:81#10,936by meloniq (Andrzej Piotrowski)7 months ago
Export taxonomies into formatted file compatible with BulkPress (Import) plugin.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
More Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:67#11,533by henrikmelin15 years ago
Add more taxonomies to your WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pages Children
Down in the last 7 days:3#12,259by Paul Menard12 years ago
[Plugin Homepage](http://www.codehooligans.com/projects/wordpress/pages-children/ "Pages-Children Plugin for WordPress")
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Post Search
Up in the last 7 days:62#12,981by Creare12 years ago
A useful plugin for creating search forms & results pages for custom post types & taxonomies.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.8(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Easy Content Lists
Up in the last 7 days:53#14,114by Razorfrog Web Design4 days ago
Shortcodes for easily listing all your pages, posts, taxonomies, and tags.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Frontend Dashboard Custom Post and Taxonomies
Up in the last 7 days:141#15,261by M A Vinoth Kumar21 days ago
Add, manage, and customize custom post types and custom taxonomies directly inside Frontend Dashboard.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 22/day

Taxonomy Toolbox
Down in the last 7 days:97#18,493by pantsonhead11 years ago
Taxonomy Toolbox allows you to quickly review and update your Categories, Tags and other taxonomies.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
User Taxonomy & Directory
#20,860by Umesh Kumar3 years ago
User Taxonomy & Directory helps you effortlessly manage user taxonomies on your WordPress website. With a user-friendly interface, it simplifies t …
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.6(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day
PhotoPress
Up in the last 7 days:155#20,953by padams8 years ago
Extends the [gallery] shortcode to be able to create galleries from image taxonomies or the featured images of specific Posts.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Select Primary Category
Up in the last 7 days:396#21,488by Mobeen Abdullah6 years ago
WP Select Primary Category plugin allows you to select a primary category for different posts and custom post types.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Radio Taxonomy
Up in the last 7 days:510#22,322by Mitchell Bundy15 years ago
No more checkboxes, let's radio in.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CPT-Admin-Taxonomy-Filtering
Up in the last 7 days:117#23,070by amarinediary5 years ago
A non-invasive, lightweight WordPress plugin adding custom post type admin taxonomy filtering support. CPT-Admin-Taxonomy-Filtering is a plug-and-play …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day
WP REST API
Up in the last 7 days:176#23,185by Andrew MAGIK10 years ago
This plugin include all existing terms into separate WordPress REST API (v2) endpoint.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Taxonomy Columns
Down in the last 7 days:144#23,535by Dutch van Andel15 years ago
Automatically adds custom taxonomy columns to admin list tables.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Manager
#23,693by Mustansir Golawala16 years ago
The WP Category Manager plugin makes it easier to manage any taxonomy that is used to control the posts within widgets in the presentation layer
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Quick Bulk Tags Creator
Down in the last 7 days:49#24,072by ehabsan8 years ago
Easily add tags in bulk, and easily create a filter function to modifiy the values you insert
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Select All Terms
Down in the last 7 days:378#24,764by luistinygod9 years ago
Adds buttons to select-all / deselect-all terms on taxonomies' metaboxes
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 3/day
WP Category Images
Down in the last 7 days:159#25,399by dmikam13 years ago
Simple plugin that permits to images to Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Restrict User Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:546#26,306by Sibin Grasic9 years ago
Limit which posts your users can edit or view in the admin screen.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
PhotoPress
#26,378by padams6 years ago
This plugin extracts EXIF and XMP meta-data of uploaded images for use in populating a variety of photo specific taxonomies.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Taxonomy Manager
#26,902by GBTI Network4 months ago
A free WordPress plugin for advanced management of all your taxonomies — categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomy Metabox
Down in the last 7 days:429#30,286by David Cramer10 years ago
Pull all taxonomies into a unified, tabbed metabox.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Media Taxonomies
#30,573by Ralf Hortt12 years ago
WordPress taxonomies for media files.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Filter Post Types by Taxonomy
Up in the last 7 days:225#31,843by Ionut Staicu11 years ago
Quickly filter posts by taxonomy on your admin screens!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Colored Categories
Down in the last 7 days:218#32,853by mountaininja13 years ago
Use this plugin to attach a color to each of your categories, Great for creating a distinguishing look for each category on your site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxman
#32,968by ryanve12 years ago
Add existing taxonomies all post types.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Automatic Expiration for Categories
#33,685by brightvesseldev1 month ago
With this plugin you will be able to set an expiration date for certain categories assigned to posts and products.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.6(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Debug Bar Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:2,271#33,945by Juliette Reinders Folmer8 years ago
Debug Bar Taxonomies adds a new panel to the Debug Bar with detailed information about registered taxonomies. Requires "Debug Bar" plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Required Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:732#34,707by Chirag Rathod2 years ago
Before saving any post, taxonomies are required or by default selected when editing a post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PhotoPress
Up in the last 7 days:12,463#35,437by padams9 years ago
This plugin dynamically adds shopping cart functionality to Image Attachment Pages (or single Posts, or Pages) for use in selling prints/merchandise.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Taxonomy Column
Up in the last 7 days:10,467#37,329by Marcus Downing15 years ago
Tested up to 3.2.1 Stable tag: trunk Add columns to the All Posts, All Pages and custom post types for any taxonomies.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Automatic Galleries
#37,334by A. Jones7 years ago
Create automatic galleries in posts based on media categories or tags. Saves time by automatically creating WordPress galleries using custom categori …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Foxdell Folio Taxonomy Toolkit
Up in the last 7 days:6,675#38,969by TheHandOfCod10 years ago
Have finer control over your taxonomies so that you can have better organisation of your posts by using taxonomies other than just Categories and Tags …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Register Post Types and Taxonomies
#39,031by Alexandru Vornicescu10 years ago
This plugin will help you register new post types and taxonomies.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day