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User Taxonomy & Directory

by Umesh Kumar · Login & Users

Also makes 1 other plugin · 60+ installs across the portfolio →

User Taxonomy & Directory helps you effortlessly manage user taxonomies on your WordPress website. With a user-friendly interface, it simplifies t …

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How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 9/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 59 average across 1,444 Login & Users plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

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

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

59 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 18/100
WP compatibility 60/100
Rating quality 68/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1070 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+1% vs prior 30d
5Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

175

now · peak 376

17530d 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

User Taxonomy & Dire · #21018 you TagPages · #6300 Attachment Taxonomie · #6979 WP Required Taxonomi · #5882

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.

3.5Kper 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

2.9y ago

latest release · v2.0

10

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.0 · 2.9y ago1.2.8 · 5.8y ago1.2.7 · 8.2y ago1.2.6 · 11.6y ago1.2.4 · 11.8y ago1.2.3 · 11.8y ago1.2.2 · 11.9y ago1.2.1 · 11.9y ago1.2 · 12.2y ago1.1 · 12.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “50+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
50–60 ≈57

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-12-03 · 1,390 observations

50Installs · 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
2.0
Last updated
2.9y ago
Added
2014-02-02 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
6.0
Tested up to
6.3.10
Requires PHP
7.2

Recent reviews

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  1. Burkie
    3.4y ago

    Fantastic plugin – one of the very few to have the hard work done and allow for user taxonomies. Works really well managing on the frontend & backend.

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  2. Duke Snoogens
    4.7y ago

    Did nothing, LOL, it installs, but you can’t do anything with it. Tags did NOT show up in the user’s Sorting Column list, so there’s no real point to using it. LOL Also, you can NOT bulk add tags to user, but since Tags don’t appear in the Column List for sorting… well you get the point… unless. UPDATE! It’s also converting my PHP ‘ ” character to ASCII, not cool. lol This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Duke Snoogens.

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  3. Manish
    10.3y ago

    Hello Umesh, I have installed the user tag plugin – 1.2.6 There is one issue in plugin. When you change the name of any taxonomy and then try to go inside the taxonomy to add or remove tags, you can not enter. I have debugged and found the solution in. wp-content\plugins\user-tags\lib\class-ut-user-tags-list.php line 113 changed the line from $taxonomy_slug = ut_taxonomy_name( $item[‘name’] ); to $taxonomy_slug = ut_taxonomy_name( $item[‘slug’] );

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  4. diegooli
    10.7y ago

    Nice, now I can save some user preferences.

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  5. hafman
    10.8y ago

    Nice plugin that enables a useful feature. The support is prompt and helpful. 5 Stars

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  6. Ganesh Kerkar
    11.1y ago

    Just the way I wanted.

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  7. CleverClogsz
    11.6y ago

    I am using the User Tags plug-in on a multi-author website, with contributors from all over the globe. User Tags comes in handy to generate a tag cloud for countries of residence, for languages spoken and for topics of interest. It adds another navigation method to a website and my website visitors love the added functionality. The taxonomies created by User Tags can be displayed using the default Tag Cloud sidebar widget. Support by plug-in developer Umesh Kumar is fast, friendly, to the point and of an outstanding quality level. Thank you, Umesh!

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  8. silverbackmedia
    11.8y ago

    This is a plugin that works as expected!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.3.1

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Greek 50%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-31 40+ → 50+ up after 45 days in tier
  2. 2026-07-17 50+ → 40+ down after 3 days in tier
  3. 2026-07-14 40+ → 50+ up after 3 days in tier
  4. 2026-07-11 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-07-10 40+ → 50+ up after 10 days in tier
  6. 2026-06-30 50+ → 40+ down after 3 days in tier
  7. 2026-06-27 40+ → 50+ up after 5 days in tier
  8. 2026-06-22 50+ → 40+ down after 5 days in tier

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