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PublishPress Taxonomies – Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms

Name: PublishPress Taxonomies – Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms
Rating: 4.6 (194 reviews)
Author: Steve Burge

Tags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with PublishPress Taxonomies. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tag …

PublishPress Taxonomies ranks #808 among WordPress.org plugins with 40,000+ active installations, is #136 of 8,684 in the Customization category, a 4.6/5 rating from 194 reviews, and was last updated Oct 5, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.2

v4.0.0 Current Version v4.0.0

Updated 20 hours ago Last Update on 05 Oct, 2026

Refreshed 10 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#136 of 8,684 in Customization Top 5% by installs Downloads -29.1% this week Actively maintained

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40K+

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6.1M

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Support Resolved

100%

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92%

Review 4.6 out of 5

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

18 known vulnerabilities on record · 10 in the last 24 months · checked 1 day ago

Aug 18, 2026

Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms [simple-tags] < 3.52.0

CVE-2026-74012 · Fixed in v3.52.0
Aug 3, 2026

Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms [simple-tags] < 3.51.0

CVE-2026-15231 · Fixed in v3.51.0
Mar 22, 2026

Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms [simple-tags] < 3.45.0

CVE-2026-42646 · Fixed in v3.45.0
Jan 5, 2026

Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms [simple-tags] < 3.42.0

CVE-2025-14371 · Fixed in v3.42.0
Dec 5, 2025

Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms [simple-tags] < 3.41.0

CVE-2025-13922 · Fixed in v3.41.0
Dec 3, 2025

Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms [simple-tags] < 3.41.0

CVE-2025-13359 · Fixed in v3.41.0
Dec 3, 2025

Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms [simple-tags] < 3.41.0

CVE-2025-13354 · Fixed in v3.41.0
Nov 7, 2025

Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms [simple-tags] < 3.40.1

CVE-2025-11972 · Fixed in v3.40.1
Aug 14, 2025

Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms [simple-tags] < 3.37.3

CVE-2025-55710 · Fixed in v3.37.3
Apr 7, 2025

Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms [simple-tags] < 3.30.0

CVE-2025-0627 · Fixed in v3.30.0

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Plugin Details

Version: 4.0.0
Last Updated: Oct 05, 2026
Requires WP: 6.7+
Tested Up To: 7.1.2
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Steve Burge

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6
Reviews: 194
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 100%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and administrators who need to organize tags, categories, and other taxonomy terms across posts, pages, and WooCommerce products. It solves the problem of manually assigning and maintaining taxonomy terms by offering tools to create, edit, merge, and automatically apply terms based on content.

Manage terms and taxonomies
Terms Display shortcode/widget
Terms for Current Post display
Related Posts by shared terms
Auto Links to archive pages
Auto Terms from post content
Merge and rename terms
Delete unused terms

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about PublishPress Taxonomies – Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms

Yes, you can. Both Categories and Tags are “taxonomies” and they can help you sort your content. However, on a normal WordPress site, both Categories and Tags are only available for Posts. This means that you do not have any options to organize your Pages … unless you use a plugin such as PublishPress Taxonomies. I’ll show you how to add Categories to your WordPress Pages. Install the PublishPress Taxonomies plugin. Go to “PublishPress Taxonomies” and then “Taxonomies” in your WordPress admin area. Click “Edit” under “Categories”. Click the “Post Types” tab. Check the box for “Pages”. You may also want to check the box “Show content from all post types on archive page” so that your Posts and Pages are grouped together on the Category pages. You will now see that “Categories” are available under “Pages” in your WordPress admin menu.

You will also be able to add and remove Categories using the “Quick Edit” and “Bulk Edit” features. Click here to see how to Add Categories and Tags to WordPress Pages.

There is no technical limit to how deep your nested categories can go. In an image you can see by clicking the link below, I’ve created 10 levels of categories. You can keep adding sub-category levels as deep as you wish. The main limitation to consider will be the WordPress admin area which will start to look strained. In another you can see by clicking, I’ve added twenty levels. When I go to add “Level 21”, the “Parent Category” dropdown appears to be broken. Those extra levels appear on the main “Categories” screen, but each one is only displayed after a long row of hyphens. And when you try to add a category to a post, you may find that the lower levels are not easily visible inside the metabox. The reason that WordPress allows you to have an unlimited number of sub-categories is that these are simple database entries. The sub-categories are controlled by the parent column in the wp_term_taxonomy table. Adding more sub-categories will not slow your site down at all. Finally, I’ll note that you can add multiple levels to any WordPress taxonomy. Go to the “Taxonomies” screen in PublishPress Taxonomies. When you click “Edit”, you’ll be able to change the settings for each taxonomy. You can control whether the taxonomy is organized in parent-child relationships. Click here to see about category levels in WordPress.

We often have PublishPress Taxonomies users who want to organize their content privately. They want a taxonomy that is only used and seen in the WordPress admin area. With the PublishPress Taxonomies plugin, you can create taxonomies for internal use only. Your content will still be visible, but it can be organized with hidden taxonomies. Install the PublishPress Taxonomies plugin. Go to “Taxonomies” in the WordPress admin area. Create a new taxonomy. That’s it! The easy approach is to use PublishPress Taxonomies to create a new taxonomy. If you never decide to actively display the taxonomy, it will never be shown anywhere. It will only be available in the WordPress admin area. You will be able to add terms to this taxonomy while adding content. Inside the “Taxonomies” screen, you can click the “Admin Area” tab and choose where your private taxonomy appears:

Show in frontend menus: Should this taxonomy be available for the “Menus” screen.

Click here to see more about private taxonomies.

It is possible to use PublishPress Taxonomies to show terms in a WordPress widget. Go to Appearance > Widget and look for the “Term Display (Taxonomies Shortcode)” widget. This can be placed into any area that your theme has available. Click here to see more about showing terms in a widget.

PublishPress Taxonomies allows you to show a cloud or list of the terms in a taxonomy. You can show your terms using the shortcode shown on the “Terms Display” screen. If you are using the block editor in WordPress, you can add shortcodes using the “Shortcode” block. Click here to see more about showing terms with a shortcode.

If you have a busy WordPress site, it can be difficult to organize all your content. Fortunately, with PublishPress Taxonomies, there is a way to automatically add Tags to posts. You can create the Tags and then allow PublishPress Taxonomies to add them to relevant posts. The “Auto Terms” feature in PublishPress Taxonomies can scan your WordPress posts and automatically assign Tags. For example, imagine you have a term called “Apples”. Auto Terms can analyze your posts and when it finds the word “Apples”, it can add that Tag to your post. Go to PublishPress Taxonomies > Auto Terms in your WordPress admin menu. Choose the taxonomy you want to use with Auto Terms. In this example, choose “Tags”. Choose the post types you want to use with this feature. In this example, choose “Posts”. The other required setting is in “Terms to Use”. You need to choose whether to use all the terms in your “Tags” taxonomy, or only a select group. If you choose to use all the terms, test carefully as this process may slow your site if you have 10,000’s of terms, or if you have a slow server. Click “Save Auto Terms”. You are now ready to automatically add terms! One approach is to use the “Existing content” option to retroactively add Tags to your content. For new content, PublishPress Taxonomies can automatically scanned the post text and added the correct Tags. Click here to see more about automatically adding WordPress Tags.

If you have a busy WooCommerce site, it can be difficult to organize all your products. Fortunately, with PublishPress Taxonomies, there is a way to automatically add Product Tags and Categories. The “Auto Terms” feature in PublishPress Taxonomies can scan your WooCommerce products and automatically assign WooCommerce Tags and WooCommerce Category. For example, imagine you have a term called “WordPress”. Auto Terms can analyze your WooCommerce products and when it finds the word “WordPress”, it can add that term to your post. Go to PublishPress Taxonomies > Auto Terms in your WordPress admin menu. Choose the taxonomy you want to use with Auto Terms. In this example, choose “Product Tags”. Choose the post types you want to use with this feature. In this example, choose “Products”. The other required setting is in “Terms to Use”. You need to choose whether to use all the terms in your “Product Tags” taxonomy, or only a select group. If you choose to use all the terms, test carefully as this process may slow your site if you have 10,000’s of terms, or if you have a slow server. You are now ready to automatically add terms! One approach is to use the “Existing content” option to retroactively add Product Tags to your WooCommerce products. For new content, PublishPress Taxonomies can automatically scanned the product text and added the correct WooCommerce Tag or WooCommerce Category. Click here to see more about automatically adding WooCoomerce Product Tags.