Most Popular Tags is a plugin that displays your WordPress site's most popular tags, categories and custom taxonomies as a sidebar widget.
As of April 2026, Most Popular Tags is a WordPress tags plugin with 300 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 38K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Media Library Assistant.
Most Popular Tags is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display your blog’s most popular tags or categories as a sidebar widget. The plugin takes advantage of the new Widget API introduced in WordPress 2.8, allowing multiple instances of the same widget, each with it’s own unique configuration. You can specify how many tags/categories/link categories to show, the size of the smallest and largest ones, which unit and format to use as well as advanced ordering options.
| WordPress | 2.9+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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