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tags plugins
326 plugins in the directory carry the tags tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
326
plugins
237,580+
combined reach
42
released in 90 days
77%
quiet 18 months+
6
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct 2026 | Quick META Keywords | 100+ | released after a long silence |
| 08 Oct 2026 | PublishPress Tag Groups: Stylish Displays For Your Tags and Categories | 3,000+ | changed hands |
| 31 Aug 2026 | Automated Related Posts by Tags | inventivo | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 24 Aug 2026 | Qwebmaster AI Auto Tagger | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 22 Aug 2026 | WP Required Taxonomies – Categories and Tags Mandatory | 1,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 22 Aug 2026 | Require Categories when Creating Products – WooCommerce | 10+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Library Assistant Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit. | 70,000+ | 4.8★ | 8 days ago |
| Meta Tag Manager Easily add and manage custom meta tags to various parts of your site or on individual posts, such as Yahoo and Google verification tags. | 70,000+ | 4.8★ | 1 month ago |
| Post Tags and Categories for Pages Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages. | 20,000+ | 4.8★ | 10 months ago |
| Essential Widgets Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option | 10,000+ | 3.5★ | 5 months ago |
| Tag Pages Add tags to Pages, just as you would do with Posts | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Visual Term Description Editor Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Flexible Posts Widget An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like! | 7,000+ | 4.7★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget This plugin aims to be the most configurable tag cloud widget out there, able to suit all your weird tag cloud needs. | 4,000+ | 4.6★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| PublishPress Tag Groups: Stylish Displays For Your Tags and Categories PublishPress Tag Groups allows you to organize your WordPress taxonomy terms and show them in clouds, tabs, accordions, tables, lists and much more. | 3,000+ | 4.8★ | 24 days ago |
| SEO Auto Linker SEO Auto Linker assists in creating cornerstone SEO content. This is not a full replacement for SEO plugins. | 3,000+ | 4.3★ | 23 months ago · quiet |
| Configurable Tag Cloud (CTC) Display a tag cloud customized with your preferences in the sidebar. | 2,000+ | 3.7★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| OG Tags OG Tags includes the tags necessary to integrate your website to Facebook with almost no configuration. Automatic. Simple. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 14 months ago |
| Page Tagger Page Tagger is a Wordpress plugin which lets you tag your pages just like you do with your posts. It adds a tagging widget in the page-editing view in … | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Attachment Taxonomies This plugin adds categories and tags to the WordPress media library - lightweight and developer-friendly. | 1,000+ | 4.6★ | 3 months ago |
| Bulk Term Generator – Import multiple tags, categories, and taxonomies easily Streamline taxonomy management in WordPress with Bulk Term Generator, your free tool for easy, bulk term importing. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Categorized Tag Cloud A cloud with the most used tags in a sidebar widget, filtered by post category. | 1,000+ | 3.8★ | 3 months ago |
| Custom Recent Posts Widget A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags | 1,000+ | 4.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP Required Taxonomies – Categories and Tags Mandatory Force users to select a taxonomy term when publishing posts. For example, make category or tags required | 1,000+ | 4.1★ | 2 months ago |
| Require Post Category Require users to choose a post category before updating or publishing a post. | 1,000+ | 4.9★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Taxonomy Dropdown Widget Creates a dropdown list of non-hierarchical taxonomies as an alternative to the term (tag) cloud. Formerly known as Tag Dropdown Widget. | 1,000+ | 4.7★ | 10 months ago |
| Taxonomy List Widget Creates a list (bulleted, number, or custom) of non-hierarchical taxonomies as an alternative to the term (tag) cloud. Formerly known as Tag List Widg … | 1,000+ | 4.3★ | 10 months ago |
| TagPages Adds post-tags functionality for pages. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| xili-tidy-tags xili-tidy-tags is a tool for grouping tags by semantic groups or by language and for creating tidy tag clouds. | 1,000+ | 4.5★ | 19 months ago · quiet |
| Bulk Add Terms A lightweight plugin to add thousands of taxonomy terms in one go. | 800+ | 3.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| JSM Show Term Metadata Show term metadata in a metabox when editing terms - a great tool for debugging issues with term metadata. | 800+ | — | 8 days ago |
| Mass Delete Unused Tags Deletes all unused tags, handy tool if you want to start over with a quick clean blog. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes Convert taxonomy tags to checkboxes in the WordPress admin area. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 8 months ago |
| Already Existing Tags Looks for already existing tags within your posts. | 500+ | 4.6★ | 5 years ago · quiet |
| Auto SEO META keywords (META tags keywords) optimization + WooCommerce META TAGS for SEO allows you to display custom META Keywords strategically (based on Yoast / Rank Math in some cases) to boost your ranking on search … | 500+ | 3.0★ | 26 days ago |
| Page Tag Cloud This plugin allows you to add tags to pages and display them in a tag cloud widget. | 500+ | 4.0★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Tag Cloud Shortcode The plugin enables any page or post author to include a Tag Cloud by using a shortcode instead of hacking theme template files. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 7 years ago · quiet |
| Automatic Product Categories for WooCommerce Automatically assign WooCommerce product categories and tags using smart, rule-based automation. Save time managing products at scale. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 23 days ago |
| Oomph Hidden Tags Hide certain tags from tag lists and tag clouds. Allow capable users to see hidden tags with the see_hidden_tags capability. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Simple Taxonomy Refreshed This plugin provides a no-code facility to manage your taxonomies - either by defining your own or by adding additional function to existing ones. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 30 days ago |
| azurecurve Tag Cloud Displays a tag cloud with easy control of settings and exclusion of tags from the cloud. | 300+ | 4.5★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| Most Popular Tags Most Popular Tags is a plugin that displays your WordPress site's most popular tags, categories and custom taxonomies as a sidebar widget. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| 1ON1 URL REDIRECTS Easily redirect pages, posts and tags or custom post types to another page or post or external URL by specifying the redirect URL. | 200+ | — | 7 months ago |
| Auto-tags Automatically add relevant tags to new posts. | 200+ | 4.1★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| Category For Pages Adds categories and tags functionality for your pages. | 200+ | 3.7★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Random Tags Cloud Widget Random Tags Cloud displays your tags by selecting randomly. Of course, you can customize other tag cloud's settings. | 200+ | — | 17 years ago · quiet |
| Search by Product Tag for Woocommerce Extend the search functionality of woocommerce to include searching of product tags. | 200+ | 4.9★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Smart Tag Insert Automatically adds most relevant tags to posts selecting them from an admin-defined list. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Tags to Keywords Add tags in head of page as meta's keywords | 200+ | 5.0★ | 6 months ago |
| Add Meta Tag For WordPress this plugin that you can add metadata your web site for more efficient indexing and easier sharing of your content. | 100+ | 3.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Antypas Auto Categories, SEO & Tags Auto-files new posts into the right category and adds an SEO title, meta description, and tags on publish. For AI publishing tools and more. | 100+ | — | 4 months ago |
| Category Description Widget Enables a widget with the category description. | 100+ | 2.3★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Cat + Tag Filter This plugin adds a widget to your WordPress site that gives your visitors an ability to filter all your posts by a category or/and tag. | 100+ | 4.2★ | 13 years ago · quiet |
| Tag Widget A more customizable solution than the default wordpress tag cloud. | 100+ | 1.0★ | 13 years ago · quiet |
| Doc’s Auto-tags Assigns tags and/or categories to posts containing specific text strings, handy for filtering within the loop. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Easy Content Lists Shortcodes for easily listing all your pages, posts, taxonomies, and tags. | 100+ | — | 11 months ago |
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