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Export Categories, Tags and Taxonomies

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 90/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

400+

Active installs

≈450 estimated

23.3K

Total downloads

since 2013

4.55★

Rating (adjusted)

4.8★ raw · 26 reviews

+49%

88

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40, 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.

45 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 87/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4448 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

+49% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

88

now · peak 114

8730d 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

WP Export Categories · #9440 you Attachment Taxonomie · #6984 WP Required Taxonomi · #5893 WP REST API · #9711

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · 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.

218per 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

12.2y ago

latest release · v1.0.3

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.3 · 12.2y ago1.0.1 · 12.7y ago1.0.2 · 12.7y 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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈450

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

Install history · since 2015-08-14 · 1,425 observations

400Installs · 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.

Ratings · 26 reviews

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5★
23 4★
2 3★
1 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.3
Last updated
12.2y ago
Added
2013-12-16 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.6
Tested up to
3.9.40
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ webaware
    1.9y ago

    Once a website has been delivered, any new work in the database needs to be copied across from dev sites to staging and live sites somehow. WordPress has basic support for exporting / importing posts, but if you only want to bring taxonomies across, it has nothing. This handy plugin lets you do that. Nice job, and many thanks! It may not have been updated in a while, but still working very well on WordPress 6.6 in 2024. There are PHP deprecation warnings in PHP 8.3 (and likely 8.2) but they are only warnings. This topic was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by webaware.

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  2. ★★★★★ kocsisjozsef
    5.2y ago

    Had to export Woocommerce categories, this plugin was just the perfect tool. The export format can be used with the default WordPress importer, so there is no need to install anything on the importer side.

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  3. ★★★★★ Ahmednhussein
    5.5y ago

    when I saw date 7 years ago, I was going to skip it but reviews encouraged me to try it. and really thanks it is working great and simple. Thanks a lot and for plugin creator also thanks for everyone wrote positive review. This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Ahmednhussein.

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  4. ★★★★★ milenfrom
    6.0y ago

    Works as described

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  5. ★★★★★ Tahoe
    6.0y ago

    Managed to import my product categories and tags in a few minutes.

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  6. ★★★★★ Els Guns
    6.2y ago

    Awesome, thanks! 👍

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  7. ★★★★★ Piyush Rana
    6.7y ago

    This plugin works likes a charm , its showing out of updated but still works. Thanks author for this wonderful plugin.

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  8. ★★★★★ RealMag777
    7.0y ago

    Plugin not updated for 5 years but still works

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. Medium · 5.3 Export Categories & Taxonomies <= 1.0.3 - Missing Authorization ↗
    2025-12-31 CVE-2025-62079 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.3 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

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. 2026-07-22 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-07-21 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2026-07-19 500+ → 400+ down after 219 days in tier
  4. 2025-12-12 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-12-11 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2025-12-10 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-12-09 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2025-12-08 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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