Taxonomy Toolbox
by pantsonhead · Admin & Utilities
Taxonomy Toolbox allows you to quickly review and update your Categories, Tags and other taxonomies.
44 health vs 61 average across 1,023 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 10+ 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3923 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
55
now · peak 167
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “60+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 70+ in roughly 1076 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-30 70+ → 60+ down after 5 days in band
- 2026-06-25 60+ → 70+ up after 130 days in band
- 2026-02-15 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-02-14 60+ → 50+ down after 118 days in band
- 2025-10-19 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-10-18 60+ → 70+ up after 2 days in band
- 2025-10-16 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-10-15 60+ → 70+ up after 3 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Term Management Tools 10K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags B -
Search & Filter 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B -
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Radio Buttons for Taxonomies 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags C - A Adjust Admin Categories 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
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Taxonomy Images 9K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
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