Display the Tag Cloud or the Archive directly in posts and pages, and change their look in the options.
As of April 2026, Post Tags and Archives is a WordPress tags plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Media Library Assistant.
Tag clouds and Archives are useful for visitors, but also for search engines to find and index what topics your blog relates to. “Post Tags and Archives” makes it easy to add Tag Clouds or Archives to posts and pages via shortcodes.
Before, you could only put it in the sidebar or widgets. That could hurt the search ranking for relevant terms and crowds the sidebar. So one either had to truncate the cloud and archive – or get rid of them (or use some more complicated trickery).
Now you can just drop them in your posts and change the look easily via the options.
Should be self-explanatory.
The advanced features: Please be careful with the HTML parts.
The archive-format setting “options for dropdown-menu” is for people who want to setup forms. You have t…
| WordPress | 2.3+ requiredTested up to 5.6.17 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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