Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes
Convert taxonomy tags to checkboxes in the WordPress admin area.
5(2 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes is a WordPress ui plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.4+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 66% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Radio Buttons for Taxonomies.
5/52 reviews
1.0K+active installs
100%resolved
1 yearsince 2025
Overview
This plugin lets you swap the auto-complete / search style interface for a checkbox list, without changing any underlying data.
It allows you to pick from a list of the existing tags, so that admin users do not need to remember each tag.
It can optionally allow new terms to be added directly from the post editing UI, while still letting you keep this disabled by default.
Features
- Replace the tags ui with a checkbox list
- No alteration to front end functionality, or the underlying data / terms
- Option to control the height of the taxonomy metabox, between default (200px max), full, and custom (px)
- Optional inline add control for new terms, enabled per taxonomy
- Optional link to the taxonomy edit screen via an “+ Add / Edit {taxonomy}” style link
- Optional per-taxonomy search box w…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Does what I need
by swinggraphics·1 month ago
I have some sites that just want to select tags from an existing list, and this is perfect for that!
Works perfectly!
by David Foreman·8 months ago
What a great plugin – searched for ages to find this, but does exactly what it needs to do. You do need to go into the settings and show the system tags to enable it (I think it would be better if I had to turn that off rather than on as that’s what I wanted the plugin for).
Great example of an annoying WP UI problem solved by a great plugin.
Download Trends
Today: 11Yesterday: 23This week: 112Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
78.8%
v1.5
19.0%
Other
2.1%
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Changelog
1.5.0 – 5th March 2026
- Feature – Add a suspect-term cleanup tool in Settings > Taxonomies to identify and remove likely erroneous numeric terms created by a previous bug
- Feature – Add
runthings_ttc_cleanup_capabilityandrunthings_ttc_cleanup_taxonomiesfilters for cleanup tool permissions and scope overrides - Fix – Prevent accidental creation of numeric term names in the classic integration path
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