Taxonomy Switcher

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 61% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ goldeneagle

   8mo ago

   A really useful plugin for when you realise you need to refine your data structure. Works like a charm, switching terms between categories, tags and custom taxonomies.

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2. ★★★★★ trinadin

   12mo ago

   Simple and effective tool. The best kind.

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3. ★★★★★ mllapan

   1.6y ago

   Great!

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4. ★★★★★ bernardberry646

   3.3y ago

   Work perfectly with a multitude of heavily hierarchical Parent / Child categories. Thank you @webdevstudios @sc0ttkclark @jtsternberg

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5. ★★★★★ Lax Mariappan

   3.3y ago

   I started using this plugin recentlyThanks for the CLI support Works as expected

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6. ★★★★★ WPExplorer

   3.9y ago

   Does exactly what it claims to do and works flawlessly. Thanks!!

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7. ★★★★★ titanwd

   5.7y ago

   This worked exactly as it should’ve, but I wish there was a copy option – not just move. That said, I had a new custom post type and needed to move the posts from Posts into the new CPT and a new custom Taxonomy and maintain the categories in the new post and new Taxonomy and this worked perfectly to move the categories and keep them assigned to the correct post. I did want to keep the categories also in the Posts, but that’s acceptable to me to re-create them since I didn’t have to go reassign the categories manually to each post. Thanks!

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8. ★★★★★ Ivo Slavík

   5.7y ago

   Did what I needed, thank you.

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.1 Taxonomy Switcher <= 1.0.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2015-04-20 CVE-2015-10013 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.0.3 Patched in 1.0.4

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Growth timeline

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

1. 2024-11-30 3K+ → 2K+ down after 4 days in tier
2. 2024-11-26 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2024-11-25 3K+ → 2K+ down after 12 days in tier
4. 2024-11-13 2K+ → 3K+ up

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).

• Term Management Tools 10K+ installs · 4.8★ · 4 shared tags B
• Taxonomy Images 9K+ installs · 4.3★ · 4 shared tags D
• Search & Filter 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A
• Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A
• R Remove Taxonomy Base Slug 4K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags D
• Category Icon 2K+ installs · 3.3★ · 3 shared tags B

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Taxonomy Switcher: 2K+ active installs, 5.0★ (24 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/taxonomy-switcher