Display popular tags on achieve/category page of your theme using sortcode or by calling a function.
As of April 2026, Category Popular Tags is a WordPress tags plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Media Library Assistant.
You can make use of category popular tag to display most used tag on your blog. This will give list of frequently used tag anywhere you place the shortcode or funtion in your theme.
For example [popular_category_tags count=10 type=”popular-tags” category_id=”1″].
You can also call this function from your theme file: cush_category_popular_tag() for basic output.
When using the shortcode type is required. category id, count is not required. if no category id suplied, the plugin will default to current post category available.
For example [popular_category_tags type=”popular-tags” ].
You can find category tags options under Settings page
Settings -> Category Tags
Credit : (https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/261617/display-most-popular-tags-of…
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 5.2.24 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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