Tag Groups allows you to organize your WordPress taxonomy terms and show them in clouds, tabs, accordions, tables, lists and much more.
As of April 2026, Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms is a WordPress tabs plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 49 reviews. It has been downloaded 295K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Accordions.
The Tag Groups plugin allows you to organize your WordPress taxonomy terms and show them in clouds, tabs, accordions, tables, lists and much more. You can customize your term displays with a huge number of options and use them in posts, pages, blocks, or shortcodes.
The Free version of the Tag Groups plugin comes with the following features. All of these features are available as both shortcodes and also Gutenberg blocks.
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On the admin side, the grouping works well, very intuitive, but the implementation has some flaws in terms accessibility. For example, using a tabbed or accordion interface, the headers are taken out of the tab index order (open section has tabindex=0 and closed are -1) , so cannot be accessed via keyboard UNLESS the user switches to the arrow keys. This is not intuitive. Once opened, the tag links are keyboard accessible via tab.
Since the original developer ChattyMango resold the plugin, it’s just bullshit.
In the design theme “Accordion”, the previously neatly and clearly separated keywords are now suddenly and unexpectedly raped by the current development team in such a way that the entries are now displayed as unwanted and thus confusing keyword clouds.
The documentation for customizing the free version has been removed by the current developers.
ChattyMango had provided a few code snippets in the WP backend to refine the display of the chosen design style a bit.
The current developers apparently want to drive the user to buy the premium version for the sake of profit.
It is already clear to me that the development of a plugin is a lot of work and that it should also be paid for with the premium version. But I don’t need the extensive features of the premium version. But for the free version of the plugin, I would like to get back at least the rudimentary customization options that were previously available.
With the takeover and the latest updates, the code has apparently been messed up to such an extent that the plugin is slowing down the website. Loading times of more than 4 seconds are unacceptable with the plug-in enabled. I tried to delete the new version and then install the version 1.4, which was satisfactory at the time. Version 1.4 has been installed and loading times have decreased dramatically. But the messed-up accordion view with the stupid cloud of buzzwords stuck with me.
But the messed-up accordion view with the stupid cloud of buzzwords stayed with me. Of course, I can’t verify how deep the current version digs into the system.
I want the Accordion theme to be able to see the list view again and the loading times to be optimized.
In other words, if you manage to screw up a previously unique plugin like that, then you should be able to get rid of the hopelessly screwed up nonsense in the interest of the users.
And again provides proper documentation.
And above all, the helpful (example) codes for individual customization.
Then there are also asterisks again.
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Edit: Problem solved
After several hours of searching and with a lot of patience, I was now able to solve the problem I described myself and would like to share the solution with interested parties who have the same problem:
Navigate to the menus in the WP backend.
Find the “MLA Text” menu and open the widget to paste the following code into the text box (only the bold text in the square brackets):
‘#’ [tag_groups_accordion smallest= 14 largest=14 separator=<br/>] ‘#’
Now the keywords embedded in the Accordion template are no longer displayed as a confusing cloud, but as a clean list from each other and, above all, separated from each other.
In the documentation designed by the developer, although very extensive, there are some “shortcuts” or .PHP snippets.
However, nowhere is it explained where and how to insert the code in order to be able to make such individual adjustments. At least I didn’t find them – if these hints were noted somewhere – despite my intensive and attentive reading for self-help.
I increase my rating to 3 stars for the user-unfriendly documentary.
For the plugin I give (also to myself) 5 stars because it works NOW the way I want it to.
Maybe it’s because I have been trying all day to find a plug in to do what I need and have failed but this one has been one of the most frustrating. I read the documentation and it looked like this may work for me. I installed it and ran the setup wizard and hit the Preview and poof a page popped up that looked like I could work with it. It was not the layout I was looking for but it was the best layout I have seen today. So I closed that window and when back to the CP to see if I could make some changes to the layout and got so lost. Could not find my way back and the help and CP navigation is crap. All sorts of stuff that I do not care about or do not need and nothing that would help me. ARG…. I just want to be able to sort products based on the tags they are given.
Simply the best tags plugin for WordPress. The support is great, the developer very friendly and the plugin is very powerful with unlimited functionality and possibilities. Congratulations and friendships.
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
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