10 Best Taxonomy List Widget Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Taxonomy List Widget has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Taxonomy List Widget
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NS Category Widget
Closest match4.8 (34) 1,000+ active installsA plugin to add widget for listing Categories and Taxonomies. Extending Default WordPress Category Widget.
Shares the sidebar, taxonomy, widget tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated September 12, 2025.
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4.1 (20) 200+ active installsAutomatically add relevant tags to new posts.
Shares the tag, tags tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since August 4, 2012.
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4.4 (40) 9,000+ active installsAssociate images from your media library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies.
Shares the tag, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, no update since February 15, 2024.
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4.9 (76) 10,000+ active installsAllows you to merge terms, move terms between taxonomies, and set term parents, individually or in bulk.
Shares the tag, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated December 11, 2025.
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4.8 (23) 5,000+ active installsThis plugin can remove specific taxonomy base slug from your permalinks (e.g. "/genre/fiction/" to "/fiction/").
Shares the tag, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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5.0 (24) 2,000+ active installsSwitch the taxonomy for all terms or only child terms of a specified parent term.
Shares the tag, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated July 14, 2026.
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Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms
4.8 (57) 3,000+ active installsTag Groups allows you to organize your WordPress taxonomy terms and show them in clouds, tabs, accordions, tables, lists and much more.
Shares the tags, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 19 days ago.
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4.6 (49) 4,000+ active installsThis plugin aims to be the most configurable tag cloud widget out there, able to suit all your weird tag cloud needs.
Shares the tags, widget tags on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.6 (57) 7,000+ active installsAn advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!
Shares the tags, widget tags on WordPress.org. About 7 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.8 (76) 5,000+ active installsBrands for WooCommerce plugin allows you to add brands for products in your shop.
Shares the taxonomy, widget tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
Switching from Taxonomy List Widget: common questions
What is the best alternative to Taxonomy List Widget?
NS Category Widget is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 1,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Taxonomy List Widget alternative has the most users?
Term Management Tools, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Taxonomy List Widget alternative is rated highest?
Term Management Tools, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 76 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Taxonomy List Widget alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Taxonomy List Widget score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Taxonomy List Widget on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
NS Category Widget is the closest match to Taxonomy List Widget by the data we track, and Term Management Tools has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. Brands for WooCommerce shipped the most recent release, on August 25, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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