Best taxonomy search plugins for WordPress
The most popular taxonomy search plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. GA Admin Taxonomy Search leads with 400+ active installs, ahead of ACME Amazing Search (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “taxonomy search” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 taxonomy search plugins
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GA Admin Taxonomy SearchThe most installed taxonomy search plugin, with 400+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.0.
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ACME Amazing Search10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.0.
All 2 plugins tagged “taxonomy search”

GA Admin Taxonomy Search
Down in the last 7 days:5#9,511by Grigor Asatryan2 years ago
Make it easy to search/filter items in your admin categories meta box.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ACME Amazing Search
Down in the last 7 days:2,990#42,041by acmemediakits9 years ago
Acme Amazing Search is a simple google style ultra fast search engine that allows you to search anything inside WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day