Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager… vs Visual Term Description Editor (2026)
Detailed side-by-side comparison of two WordPress plugins, based on real-time data from WordPress.org.
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager…
50K+ active installs
Free
Visual Term Description Editor
20K+ active installs
Free
Quick Verdict
As of April 2026, Visual Term Description Editor has a higher user rating (5/5 from 21 reviews) while Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager… leads in active installations (50K+ vs 20K+). Both are free WordPress plugins. Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager… has accumulated 5.8M+ total downloads while Visual Term Description Editor has 97K+.
Detailed Comparison
| Metric | Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager… | Visual Term Description Editor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.6/5 | ► | 5/5 |
| Total Reviews | 188 | ◄ | 21 |
| Active Installs | 50K+ | ◄ | 20K+ |
| Total Downloads | 5.8M+ | ◄ | 97K+ |
| Support Resolution | 50% | N/A | |
| Last Updated | 1 month ago | ◄ | 1 year ago |
| First Released | 2007 | 2013 | |
| Age | 19 years | 13 years | |
| WP Requires | 5.0+ | 3.3+ | |
| PHP Requires | 7.4+ | 5.4+ | |
| Business Model | Free | Free | |
| Latest Version | 3.44.0 | 1.8.1 |
Rating Breakdown
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager…
Visual Term Description Editor
Download Trends
Over the past 30 days, Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager… averaged approximately 633 daily downloads while Visual Term Description Editor averaged 17.
Recent Reviews
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager… Reviews
Very good
Very good plugin
Excellent
plugins really help us
A plugin for a brilliant intuition
Having the ability to categorize site pages into logical groups of project categories has finally made it much easier for me to create multilingual projects.
Visual Term Description Editor Reviews
still very useful
I Have still pages with the old themes and this is really useful for adding text on the category pages. This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Daniel.
Great plugin – works with WP 6.3
Great plugin to allow you to make your term descriptions more visually appealing. It works just fine with WP 6.3 in lieu of implementing the block editor for term descriptions.
Great plugin!
Very simple and useful
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Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages.
This is a fix of Top Level Categories plugin for Wordpress 3.1. and above.
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