Best terms plugins for WordPress
The most popular terms plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Complianz leads with 300K+ active installs, ahead of Heroic Glossary (3K+) and Beautiful taxonomy filters (2K+). All 72 plugins tagged “terms” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 terms plugins
- 1.
ComplianzThe most installed terms plugin, with 300K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 187 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.Heroic Glossary
3K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 10 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.0.
- 3.
Beautiful taxonomy filters2K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 68 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Text Hover1K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 17 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 5.
Bulk Term Generator1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 18 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 6.
I Order Terms1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 11 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.
LH Agree to Terms800+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 8.
JSM Show Term Metadata800+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
- 9.Agreeable
800+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 27 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 10.
Bulk Add Terms700+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 17 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
All 72 plugins tagged “terms”

Complianz
#191by Complianz1 month ago
Configure your own Terms and Conditions specific to your service or webshop.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 4.9(187)
- Downloads
- 1.5K/day
Heroic Glossary
#3,752by HeroThemes10 months ago
The best WordPress glossary builder plugin to create and manage your own glossary of terms.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 3.8(10)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Beautiful taxonomy filters
Down in the last 7 days:18#4,410by Jonathan de Jong2 months ago
Supercharge your custom post type archives by letting visitors filter posts by their terms/categories. This plugin handles the whole thing for you!
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(68)
- Downloads
- 39/day

Text Hover
Down in the last 7 days:7#5,286by Scott Reilly4 years ago
Add hover text (aka tooltips) to content in posts. Handy for providing explanations of names, terms, phrases, abbreviations, and acronyms.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(17)
- 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

I Order Terms
Down in the last 7 days:22#6,175by Igor Jerosimić10 months ago
Allows theme developers to add order/sort functionality for categories, tags and custom taxonomies.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 49/day

LH Agree to Terms
Up in the last 7 days:14#7,393by shawfactor8 years ago
Add a HTML5 "Agree to terms" check box on login or registration forms.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/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
Agreeable
Down in the last 7 days:47#7,559by buildcreate10 years ago
Add an "Agree to terms" check box on login, registration, or comment forms. Works with BuddyPress, bbPress and MultiSite.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 3.9(27)
- Downloads
- 11/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

Bulk Actions Select All
Down in the last 7 days:25#7,663by Jesper van Engelen9 years ago
Adds an option to the admin posts and terms overview pages to select all items (instead of just the ones on the current page) to apply bulk actions.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.6(30)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Term Taxonomy Converter
Down in the last 7 days:41#8,835by Dhanendran Rajagopal4 months ago
Copy or convert terms from one taxonomy to another while keeping their post associations.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Duplicate taxonomy terms and ACF fields
Down in the last 7 days:9#9,160by Kresimir Pendic7 years ago
Duplicate taxonomy terms and ACF field values, if there are any
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Legal Terms and Conditions Popup for User Login and WooCommerce Checkout
Down in the last 7 days:500#9,296by Árpád Lehel Mátyus8 months ago
Creates a popup with a scrollable window that will show your own custom Terms and Conditions when users logs in to your website.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(14)
- Downloads
- 13/day
Term Menu Order
Up in the last 7 days:10#10,515by 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
- 5/day

BulkPress
Down in the last 7 days:62#10,910by 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

R2K Terms Copier
Down in the last 7 days:63#13,395by systemsrtk6 months ago
Duplicate taxonomy terms including all meta data and relationships with a single click.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Ajax Load More for Terms
Up in the last 7 days:151#14,530by Darren Cooney1 year ago
Ajax Load More extension that adds compatibility for infinite scrolling WordPress terms using term_query.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Glossary Index
Down in the last 7 days:60#17,618by stepanvanek10 months ago
Create a glossary on your WordPress site to boost SEO, help visitors understand your content, and increase organic search traffic.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/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
Terms Before Download
Down in the last 7 days:128#18,774by hiroprot1 year ago
Shows a popup dialog with terms and conditions (EULA) that must be accepted before a file can be downloaded
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
The Taxonomy Sort
Up in the last 7 days:178#19,010by 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

Automatic pages for Privacy Policy, Terms, About, Contact us
Up in the last 7 days:1,190#20,274by Puvox Software17 days ago
[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍 ] Automatically generate text for Privacy Policy, Terms of use, Contact us, About us
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Auto Link Tags
Down in the last 7 days:6#22,333by Patricio T12 years ago
Create automatic links to your tags in your posts.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 2/day

Quick Bulk Tags Creator
Down in the last 7 days:114#24,174by 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
#24,627by luistinygod9 years ago
Adds buttons to select-all / deselect-all terms on taxonomies' metaboxes
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 3/day
scifi Facets
Up in the last 7 days:65#24,949by dimitrov.adrian11 years ago
scifi Facets is simple facet widget which allow adding a widget
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Taxonomy Manager
Up in the last 7 days:284#27,001by 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

Shadow Terms
Down in the last 7 days:96#28,169by Happy Prime9 months ago
Use terms from generated taxonomies to associate related content.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Posts By Taxonomy Widget
Down in the last 7 days:523#31,323by Pippin Williamson13 years ago
Display a list of taxonomy terms with recent posts in those terms in a simple to use widget
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Terms of Use
#31,948by levi.putna18 years ago
Instead of making the user agree to the Terms of Use when they join the site this plugin makes them agree to the terms and conditions the first time t …
- 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
Generate Posts and Terms
Down in the last 7 days:526#33,138by Alexandru Vornicescu10 years ago
This plugin will help you generate dummy new posts and terms.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Clever Linked Terms
Up in the last 7 days:14,318#33,955by Jeff Brigman19 days ago
Build a smarter WordPress glossary with automatic linking, tooltips, semantic relationships, maps, and FluentCommunity support.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Automatic Expiration for Categories
Up in the last 7 days:310#34,373by 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

Merge duplicate terms
#36,602by zabatonni10 years ago
Plugin for easy merging duplicate terms (tags, categories, ...)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-Disclaim-Me
Up in the last 7 days:5,723#38,678by dominicfallows17 years ago
WP-Disclaim-Me is a plugin that lets you create a disclaimer that a visitor to your blog / website must accept before they can access your posts and p …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

IDATERMS
Up in the last 7 days:5,774#40,393by ceslava9 years ago
Add an extra column with the ID term to your taxonomies (Tags, Catgeories or Custom Taxonomies) so you can sort your terms by date.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- 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
Search terms cloud
Down in the last 7 days:4,003#42,549by younes.rafie13 years ago
Provides a Search terms cloud widget in the front of your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ghost Tags
Down in the last 7 days:6,459#45,420by nuvuscripts14 years ago
Ghost Tags.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- 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
Taxonomy Extra Fields (BETA)
#46,379by Guillermo Garcia10 years ago
Add your own custom fields to all wordpress taxonomies, easily and efficiently, directly from admin UI.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Terms & Conditions
Down in the last 7 days:5,753#46,618by levi.putna15 years ago
This Plugin adds a Terms & Conditions agreement page the first time a user logs in and a welcome message for new members.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Custom Taxonomy Order
#47,026by Magda Sicknick7 years ago
Allows for a custom order of taxonomies.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
mowsterGlossary
Down in the last 7 days:9,329#47,140by mowster13 years ago
Allows to manage and display a glossary in WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multisite Global Terms
Down in the last 7 days:1,495#48,288by Brajesh Singh8 years ago
Allow global terms across all blogs on a multisite installation.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Term Manager
Up in the last 7 days:6,069#50,607by Landon5 years ago
WP Term Manager helps users clean up or hide terms for easier administration.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Terms Gate
Up in the last 7 days:18,720#50,802by Hook Labs1 year ago
Require users to agree to your terms before viewing selected WordPress pages or posts. Simple, flexible, and GDPR-friendly.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Re-trigger Scheduled Posts
Down in the last 7 days:135#51,660by Landon5 years ago
Originally adapted from Scheduled Post Trigger to be more resource efficient.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day