10 Best Taxonomy Images Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Taxonomy Images has 9,000+ 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 Images
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Term Management Tools
Closest match4.9 (76) 10,000+ active installsAllows you to merge terms, move terms between taxonomies, and set term parents, individually or in bulk.
Shares the category, tag, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated December 11, 2025.
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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 category, tag, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated July 14, 2026.
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Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms
4.6 (194) 40,000+ active installsTags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with TaxoPress. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tags and more.
Shares the category, tag, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 4.4 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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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 category, tag, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.5 (175) 50,000+ active installsSearch and Filtering for Custom Posts, Categories, Tags, Taxonomies, Post Dates and Post Types
Shares the category, tag, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 5.6 times the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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4.4 (23) 2,000+ active installsCreate custom enhanced pages for categories and any taxonomy term and manage them as a custom post.
Shares the taxonomy, term tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since July 14, 2016.
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4.8 (20) 6,000+ active installsSort taxonomy terms, your way.
Shares the taxonomy, term tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated March 26, 2026.
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4.8 (28) 50,000+ active installsAdd Categories and Tags to Pages.
Shares the category, tag tags on WordPress.org. About 5.6 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
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4.8 (34) 1,000+ active installsA plugin to add widget for listing Categories and Taxonomies. Extending Default WordPress Category Widget.
Shares the category, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 9,000+, last updated September 12, 2025.
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4.9 (28) 10,000+ active installsQuickly and easily reorder taxonomy terms with an easy to use and intuitive drag and drop interface.
Shares the term tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since March 22, 2023.
Switching from Taxonomy Images: common questions
What is the best alternative to Taxonomy Images?
Term Management Tools is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Taxonomy Images alternative has the most users?
Search & Filter, with 50,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Taxonomy Images 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 Images 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 Images 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 Images 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
Term Management Tools is the closest match to Taxonomy Images by the data we track, and Search & Filter has the widest reach with 50,000+ active installs. Autotagger Automatically Add Terms shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 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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