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.Agreeable
800+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 27 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 9.
JSM Show Term Metadata800+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
- 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
Down in the last 7 days:7#3,758by 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
- 30/day

Beautiful taxonomy filters
Down in the last 7 days:7#4,406by 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
- 38/day

Text Hover
Down in the last 7 days:7#5,294by 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:22#5,488by 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
- 14/day

I Order Terms
Down in the last 7 days:3#6,155by Igor Jerosimić11 months ago
Allows theme developers to add order/sort functionality for categories, tags and custom taxonomies.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 48/day

LH Agree to Terms
Up in the last 7 days:3#7,398by 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
Agreeable
Down in the last 7 days:32#7,536by 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

JSM Show Term Metadata
Down in the last 7 days:24#7,556by JS Morisset11 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

Bulk Add Terms
Up in the last 7 days:2#7,641by 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:35#7,671by 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:27#8,803by 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:16#9,131by Kresimir Pendic7 years ago
Duplicate taxonomy terms and ACF field values, if there are any
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Legal Terms and Conditions Popup for User Login and WooCommerce Checkout
Down in the last 7 days:672#9,539by 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
- 12/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

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

R2K Terms Copier
Up in the last 7 days:13#13,328by 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
#15,061by Darren Cooney1 year ago
Ajax Load More extension that adds compatibility for infinite scrolling WordPress terms using term_query.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Gecka Terms Ordering
Down in the last 7 days:109#17,658by 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

Glossary Index
Down in the last 7 days:515#18,277by stepanvanek10 months ago
Create a glossary on your WordPress site to boost SEO, help visitors understand your content, and increase organic search traffic.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Terms Before Download
Down in the last 7 days:247#18,807by 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:263#18,835by 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
#20,248by Puvox Software18 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:17#22,344by Patricio T12 years ago
Create automatic links to your tags in your posts.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/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
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

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

Shadow Terms
Up in the last 7 days:505#28,081by 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
#31,930by 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
Up in the last 7 days:56#32,172by 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
#33,062by Erwan Guillon11 years ago
Add some meta to your terms like tags, categories or custom taxonomies
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Generate Posts and Terms
#33,158by Alexandru Vornicescu10 years ago
This plugin will help you generate dummy new posts and terms.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- 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

IDATERMS
#35,296by 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
Search terms cloud
Up in the last 7 days:10,284#35,532by younes.rafie13 years ago
Provides a Search terms cloud widget in the front of your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Clever Linked Terms
Up in the last 7 days:3,101#38,346by Jeff Brigman20 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
Terms & Conditions
Down in the last 7 days:502#38,536by 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
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

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
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
WP-Disclaim-Me
Up in the last 7 days:2,378#45,534by 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
Taxonomy Extra Fields (BETA)
#46,372by 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
mowsterGlossary
Down in the last 7 days:7,910#47,120by mowster13 years ago
Allows to manage and display a glossary in WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Custom Taxonomy Order
Down in the last 7 days:7,770#47,154by Magda Sicknick7 years ago
Allows for a custom order of taxonomies.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Merge duplicate terms
Down in the last 7 days:8,873#48,265by zabatonni10 years ago
Plugin for easy merging duplicate terms (tags, categories, ...)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- 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

Easy Glossary
Up in the last 7 days:9,565#53,492by GrayStud.io8 months ago
A lightweight, flexible glossary plugin that auto-links terms, shows tooltips, and provides an index shortcode.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomy Terms Counter
Up in the last 7 days:13,540#53,947by secretlab486 months ago
Show taxonomy term counts in the editor sidebar and manage which taxonomies display counts.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

HoverLex Glossary Tooltip
#61,088by Silpa T A3 months ago
Create glossary terms with hover tooltips. Add glossary terms as custom post type and display definitions on hover.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day