Best taxonomy plugins for WordPress
319 plugins tagged “taxonomy” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.

Pretty Sidebar Categories
#18,161by GrandSlambert20 days ago
Show posts from any taxonomy in a sidebar or Elementor, with images, excerpts, and style controls.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Taxonomy Toolbox
Up in the last 7 days:51#18,495by 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

Display post meta, term meta, comment meta, and user meta
Down in the last 7 days:75#18,674by Manuel Canga2 years ago
Displays metadata in a metabox on the creation/editing pages for posts (any CPT), terms (any taxonomy), and users. The metadata is shown in a human-re …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
The Taxonomy Sort
Up in the last 7 days:288#18,744by Risto Niinemets2 months ago
Allows you to easily change the order of different taxonomies/terms/categories.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.1(14)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Polylang Category Creator
Down in the last 7 days:19#18,941by merk_cat9 years ago
Polylang extension to create categories for all languages in one page. It detects your languages and taxonomies to get things done easier.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomy Terms List Block
#19,632by Ignacio Cruz Moreno3 years ago
Displays a list of a post terms for a selected taxonomy.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
User Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:59#19,829by Damian Gostomski14 years ago
Simplify the process of adding support for custom taxonomies for Users. Just use register_taxonomy and everything else is taken care of.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Taxonomy Meta Box Filter
Up in the last 7 days:4#19,889by Matteo Enna1 month ago
Adds a search field above each taxonomy metabox in the post editor, making it easier to manage categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/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
- 0/day

Genesis Taxonomy Images
#20,628by theMikeD10 months ago
Create and manage taxonomy images for themes using the Genesis framework. Based on "Genesis Taxonomy Images" plugin Copyright 2013 Ade Walke …
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Big Boom Directory
Up in the last 7 days:611#20,778by bigboomdesign4 months ago
Directory management system based on Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Fields
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 7/day
PhotoPress
Down in the last 7 days:174#21,120by 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
Single Value Taxonomy UI
Up in the last 7 days:189#21,271by 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
Auto-Deselect Uncategorized
Down in the last 7 days:109#21,467by gnowland6 years ago
Deselect "Uncategorized" (or your chosen "default category") when others are selected; re-select it when no others are.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Field Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:176#21,541by scribu14 years ago
Convert custom fields to tags, categories or taxonomy terms
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Restaurant
Up in the last 7 days:6#21,742by Justin Tadlock12 years ago
A restaurant and menu item manager for small restaurant sites, which can be extended for larger sites.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CPT-Admin-Taxonomy-Filtering
Up in the last 7 days:107#23,145by 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
- 0/day
Custom Taxonomy Columns
Down in the last 7 days:47#23,492by Dutch van Andel15 years ago
Automatically adds custom taxonomy columns to admin list tables.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simply Related Posts
Down in the last 7 days:25#23,494by danielauener12 years ago
A widget that simply gives you related posts by taxonomy. Four settings to customize the widget: title, taxonomy, related posts count, excludet terms
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Manager
Up in the last 7 days:207#23,591by 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
- 0/day
Attachment Taxonomy Support
Down in the last 7 days:96#23,774by Ben Huson14 years ago
Improved taxonomy support for media and attachments in versions of WordPress prior to 3.5.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Extend Search Block
Down in the last 7 days:9#23,914by WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas11 months ago
Extending WordPress Search block with search results modifier fields.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Categories Status
#24,079by Chetan Vaghela4 months ago
Add a Draft status to WordPress categories and custom taxonomy terms instead of permanently deleting them.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day
Simple Taxonomy WYSIWYG
Up in the last 7 days:260#24,107by Earl Evan Amante11 years ago
A very simple plugin that will convert the taxonomy/category description textarea to a WYSIWYG (TinyMCE) form.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Query All The Post Types
#24,391by Russell Aaron7 months ago
A developer tool displaying all registered post types w/ the benefit of exposing CPT's to AI tools and admin clients via the WordPress Abilities API.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

f(x) Categories Widget
Down in the last 7 days:46#24,672by David Chandra Purnama10 years ago
Categories widget with taxonomy option.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
scifi Facets
Up in the last 7 days:277#24,808by dimitrov.adrian11 years ago
scifi Facets is simple facet widget which allow adding a widget
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

FSM Backend Category Organizer
Up in the last 7 days:364#25,035by Fesomia8 years ago
Allows to present and sort the categories (or any hierarchical taxonomy) on the WordPress backend, displaying them more efficiently in the post's …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

AGP Ajax Taxonomy Filter
Down in the last 7 days:215#25,075by Alexey Golubnichenko11 years ago
Simple Ajax Taxonomy Filter
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Unstoppable Media Folders
Down in the last 7 days:245#25,079by Unstoppable Solutions16 days ago
Organize the WordPress Media Library into virtual, nestable folders without moving any files. Existing image URLs never change.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Commander
#25,151by 菅原隆志28 days ago
Organize categories and tags with ordering, health checks, guided category organization, and optional AI suggestions.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Widgets Master
Up in the last 7 days:276#25,340by jvwissen10 years ago
Easily manage the visibility of widgets.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Conditional Taxonomy Option
Down in the last 7 days:332#25,698by yamuaryal5 years ago
Conditional taxonomy terms option in ACF fields setup.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Set Tag Order
Down in the last 7 days:446#26,599by Adam Greenwell2 months ago
Allows a user to set a specific post tag order in either the classic or block editor.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Taxonomy Manager
Up in the last 7 days:8#26,821by 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
- 6/day

Single Taxonomy Selector
Down in the last 7 days:31#26,852by BPOTechHue1 year ago
A powerful plugin that simplifies taxonomy term selection by enabling users to select a single parent term and its child terms with flexible selection …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Front-end Category Management
#26,960by Manish Kumar Agarwal12 years ago
A handy and simple plugin for creating/editing categories/terms and sub-categories on the WordPress user end.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Dropdown Hierarchical Category UI
Down in the last 7 days:167#27,009by Kharis Sulistiyono13 years ago
It makes the categories or taxonomies list in a better UI which enables show/hide toggle of child categories. Supports any custom post types.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomic SEO Permalink
Down in the last 7 days:176#27,081by tj2point015 years ago
This plugin helps you to set your permalinks by using custom taxonomies just like you use %category% or %postname% in your permalink structure.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
McNinja Post Styles
Down in the last 7 days:94#27,354by TomHarrigan12 years ago
It's like Post Formats, but actually useful. Every post is unique, start treating them that way.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Pie
Down in the last 7 days:69#28,103by Peter J. Herrel11 years ago
The Category Pie plugin for WordPress adds a bit of extra flavor to those otherwise boring category administration pages.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Category List
Down in the last 7 days:698#28,223by nziniwal4 months ago
Display WooCommerce categories, post categories, tags, and custom taxonomies anywhere on your website using simple shortcodes.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Quick Search Only One Category Posting
Down in the last 7 days:140#28,245by longbsvnu9 years ago
Quick Search And Only One Category Posting support quickly selecting category via search box when there are many categories.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sorted
Down in the last 7 days:579#28,365by Galaxy Weblinks10 months ago
Easily reorder posts, pages, and taxonomies with a simple drag-and-drop interface directly from your WordPress dashboard.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Taxonomy Terms Grid
Down in the last 7 days:108#28,664by ivanchernyakov7 years ago
Create grid list from your taxonomy terms (e.g. post categories).
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Term Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:344#29,094by Ralf Hortt12 years ago
Post Thumbnails for WordPress Terms
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Categories Page
#29,150by Mervin Praison1 year ago
Displays a table listing of all Categories registered on your website. Shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tag My Hash
Up in the last 7 days:828#29,185by Lorna Timbah2 months ago
Automatically converts #hashtags in your posts into WordPress tags and clickable links to tag archive pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

inCOD Bulk Taxonomy Remove
Down in the last 7 days:77#29,195by Marco De Sangro1 month ago
Easily remove specific taxonomies (categories, tags, custom taxonomies) from posts, products, and CPTs directly from the Bulk Edit screen.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multisite Directory
Up in the last 7 days:125#29,434by Meitar9 years ago
Add a browseable, flexible directory of the sites in a WP Multisite network. Each subsite gets its own page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day