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Taxonomy Metadata

by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) · Uncategorized

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Infrastructure plugin which implements metadata functionality for taxonomy terms, including for tags and categories.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 5/100
Rating quality 62/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3196 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+79% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

332

now · peak 815

32430d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Taxonomy Metadata · #3396 you WP Term Images · #4730 JSM Show Term Metada · #7435 WP Term Colors · #8000

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.6Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

81per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

12.8y ago

latest release · v0.4

4

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.4 · 12.8y ago0.3 · 13.4y ago0.2 · 15.4y ago0.1 · 16.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 92% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.5 92%
v0.4 7.9%
v0.3 0.3%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “4K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
4K–5K ≈4.4K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-21 · 1,451 observations

4KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
0.5
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2010-03-11 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
4.3.34
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. maximeal10
    9.5y ago

    Saved a lot of time, Thanks You, guys =3

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  2. Sonicelo
    11.1y ago

    Works as advertised.

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  3. Mehmet Gurdogan
    11.2y ago

    Hello; I could not install the plugin neither through WP interface nor by uploading it on the site. I already have it on my server. Is there any other way?

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  4. shirlnbruce
    11.7y ago

    This tested out to be the problem with Cart deletes on my tablet. Can’t use it on theme Flatsome.

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  5. Timur Kamaev
    11.9y ago

    perfect plugin

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  6. Simon Goodchild
    12.5y ago

    Fantastic, saves loads of time having to implement local version. And why bother when this plugin exists 🙂

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  7. Miller
    12.5y ago

    Exactly what is described. Adequate documentation, and works like a charm.

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  8. Ryan
    13.6y ago

    This plugin is great and works just as taxonomy metadata should. It follows WordPress standards like add_post_meta and such but now you have add, update and delete _term_meta. Highly recomended.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 0.4 Fixed an issue with creating new sites on multisite 0.4
  2. Version 0.3 Better Network Activation handling: install necessary tables for each blog on Network Activate if Network Activated, install necessary table when new blogs are created 0.3
  3. Version 0.2 Made Multisite-compatible, thanks to Matt Wiebe! 0.2
  4. Version 0.1 Initial upload 0.1

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-04-25 5K+ → 4K+ down after 3 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-22 4K+ → 5K+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-21 5K+ → 4K+ down after 285 days in tier
  4. 2025-07-10 6K+ → 5K+ down after 4 days in tier
  5. 2025-07-06 5K+ → 6K+ up after 2 days in tier
  6. 2025-07-04 6K+ → 5K+ down after 4 days in tier
  7. 2025-06-30 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2025-06-29 6K+ → 5K+ down after 237 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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