Best term plugins for WordPress
The most popular term plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Simple Taxonomy Ordering leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Term Management Tools (10K+) and Taxonomy Images (8K+). All 53 plugins tagged “term” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 term plugins
- 1.
Simple Taxonomy OrderingThe most installed term plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 28 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 2.
Term Management Tools10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 76 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Taxonomy Images8K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 40 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 4.
WP Term Order6K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 20 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 5.
Taxonomy Switcher2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 24 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 6.
WP Term Images2K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 10 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 7.
Enhanced Category Pages2K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 23 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 8.
Category Icon2K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.
WP Term Colors700+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 5 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 10.
WP User Groups600+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 6 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
All 53 plugins tagged “term”
Simple Taxonomy Ordering
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,444by Evan Herman3 years ago
Quickly and easily reorder taxonomy terms with an easy to use and intuitive drag and drop interface.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(28)
- Downloads
- 222/day
Term Management Tools
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,576by scribu11 months ago
Allows you to merge terms, move terms between taxonomies, and set term parents, individually or in bulk.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(76)
- Downloads
- 375/day
Taxonomy Images
Down in the last 7 days:13#2,340by Ben Huson2 years ago
Associate images from your media library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.4(40)
- Downloads
- 39/day
WP Term Order
Down in the last 7 days:8#2,753by John James Jacoby22 days ago
Sort taxonomy terms your way.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.8(20)
- Downloads
- 155/day
Taxonomy Switcher
Down in the last 7 days:16#4,481by webdevstudios3 months ago
Switch the taxonomy for all terms or only child terms of a specified parent term.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(24)
- Downloads
- 42/day
WP Term Images
Up in the last 7 days:10#4,688by John James Jacoby29 days ago
Assign images to categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms with the WordPress media library.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.6(10)
- Downloads
- 36/day
Enhanced Category Pages
Down in the last 7 days:3#4,937by cip10 years ago
Create custom enhanced pages for categories and any taxonomy term and manage them as a custom post.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.4(23)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Category Icon
Down in the last 7 days:23#5,031by pixelgrade2 months ago
A WordPress plugin to attach an icon and/or image to taxonomy terms.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 1.0(3)
- Downloads
- 22/day
WP Term Colors
Up in the last 7 days:22#7,907by John James Jacoby27 days ago
Assign colors to categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP User Groups
Down in the last 7 days:9#8,394by John James Jacoby29 days ago
Group WordPress users with custom taxonomies and terms.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Bulk Term Editor
Down in the last 7 days:27#10,013by Yuya Hoshino2 years ago
You can register or edit terms in bulk. Copy cells in the spreadsheet, all that remains is to paste to this plugin.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
GamiPress
Down in the last 7 days:148#11,251by Ruben Garcia11 months ago
Setup activity triggers by post categories on GamiPress
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Term Icons
Down in the last 7 days:126#12,480by John James Jacoby27 days ago
Assign icons to categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Advanced Term Images
Up in the last 7 days:8#13,087by darrinb10 years ago
Easily add featured images to your categories, tags, and custom taxonomy terms. Supports all taxonomies!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Taxonomy Templates
Up in the last 7 days:97#17,069by shazdeh10 years ago
Define custom templates for taxonomy archive views.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Gecka Terms Ordering
Down in the last 7 days:104#17,636by Gecka11 years ago
Order your categories, tags or any other taxonomy's terms of your Wordpress website.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Genesis Taxonomy Images
Down in the last 7 days:9#20,532by 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
- 6/day
Terms Block
Up in the last 7 days:166#21,631by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)3 years ago
Term list block. Displays a list of all terms in the selected taxonomy.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Taxonomy Columns
Down in the last 7 days:18#23,499by Dutch van Andel15 years ago
Automatically adds custom taxonomy columns to admin list tables.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Merge Tags
Up in the last 7 days:329#23,590by scribu16 years ago
Adds a new form on the tag management screen that lets you merge and replace tags and categories.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Editors note.
Up in the last 7 days:260#27,155by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)6 years ago
This block is editors note. Not display on front.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomy Terms Grid
Up in the last 7 days:116#28,364by ivanchernyakov7 years ago
Create grid list from your taxonomy terms (e.g. post categories).
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Schedule Terms
Down in the last 7 days:104#28,648by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)4 months ago
Automatically set and unset the term when the time is up.
- 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
AY Term Meta
Down in the last 7 days:204#32,299by Erwan Guillon11 years ago
Add some meta to your terms like tags, categories or custom taxonomies
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
WP Term Locks
Down in the last 7 days:2,492#33,274by John James Jacoby27 days ago
Protect categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms from edits and deletion.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomy Taxi
Up in the last 7 days:5,781#34,575by postpostmodern6 years ago
Automatically display custom taxonomy information in wp-admin/edit.php
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Term Pages
Up in the last 7 days:4,405#37,922by Pixelwelt24 days ago
Redirects the first page of a term archive to a page of your choice.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomy Meta UI
Up in the last 7 days:806#39,074by Ralf Hortt11 years ago
Custom field support for terms
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Term Fields
Up in the last 7 days:4,553#40,548by darrinb10 years ago
Easily assign colors for categories, tags, and custom taxonomy terms. Term meta, color coded!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Term Fields
Up in the last 7 days:4,906#40,655by darrinb10 years ago
Easily assign icons for categories, tags, and custom taxonomy terms. Term meta, iconified!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Voip Call Charges Lite
Up in the last 7 days:4,186#40,719by vnbenny12 years ago
The plugin allows a user to install a VoIP Call Charges calculator by widget or short-code.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Super Posts Search Filter Lite
Down in the last 7 days:420#41,565by vk01111 years ago
Category based post filter that allows you to search and filter your posts based on their respective categories.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Terms to Links
Down in the last 7 days:4,476#41,835by William P. Davis16 years ago
This plugin will automatically link term names in your content to that term's detail page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CC Lexicon Lite
Up in the last 7 days:5,348#41,939by caterhamcomputing11 years ago
Provides an easy way to maintain and organise dictionary or glossary-style entries, or any type of term-based list. Display is via a simple shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Term Metadata
#43,792by Igor Golovanov12 years ago
WP Term Metadata Plugin for retrieving and manipulating metadata of term objects.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Term Colors
Up in the last 7 days:1,618#44,081by Andrei Surdu7 years ago
Provides an easy to use interface to assign colors to any term from any taxonomy.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Foxdell Folio Taxonomy Toolkit
Down in the last 7 days:7,127#45,954by 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
Custom Importer & Exporter
Down in the last 7 days:4,474#46,158by ProTech Inc.8 years ago
It is a plugin for importing and exporting Term, Post information.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Post & Taxonomy Hierarchy SEO with Woocommerce Support
#46,372by Buks Saayman9 years ago
This plugin allows you to squeeze some more SEO juice out of your website by adding your custom post type's taxonomies in your URL structure.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Term Fields
Down in the last 7 days:8,408#46,592by darrinb10 years ago
A framework for managing custom term meta for categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Logic Shortcodes
#46,808by Samuel Diethelm10 years ago
Use shortcodes for conditional logic based on post meta or taxonomy terms.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Term Authors
Down in the last 7 days:1,214#46,898by John James Jacoby27 days ago
Assign authors to categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Widget Taxonomy
Down in the last 7 days:5,255#47,761by Juhi Patel7 years ago
Widget Taxonomy provides widget for post and custom post type taxonomy display. Taxonomy and Terms disply with listing options and post count of terms …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Term Family
Down in the last 7 days:2,292#48,149by John James Jacoby27 days ago
Associate categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms into families.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Term Description Popup
Up in the last 7 days:7,360#56,042by meinService3 months ago
This plugin displays a keyword description in a popup whenever a term or post-tag in the text of a post or page matches that keyword or its synonyms.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Term Featured Image Fallback
#57,360by Eduardo Lazaro9 years ago
Enables featured images for terms of any category, tag or custom taxonomy and set them as fallback for posts of any post type.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SWPMU Term Merger
Up in the last 7 days:7,391#58,929by changwoo1 year ago
A Simple Plugin for Merging Taxonomy Terms
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mj Term Meta
Down in the last 7 days:3,808#67,426by shishir9 years ago
This plugin adds custom meta fields to
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day