Taxonomy Switcher
Switch the taxonomy for all terms or only child terms of a specified parent term.
5(24 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Taxonomy Switcher is a WordPress tag plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 24 reviews. It has been downloaded 66K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.2+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 19% this week. Top alternative: Pages with category and tag.
5/524 reviews
2.0K+active installs
66K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
This plugin allows you to select your “From”, and “To” Taxonomies, to convert all terms. Optionally select a parent term to limit terms to switch. Typing term names will do a live search of terms with the name you are typing AND possess child terms.
Plugin also has built-in support for WP-CLI. In the command line, type in wp taxonomy-switcher for instructions.
Plugin is on GitHub. Pull Requests and Forks welcome.
Notes
Please keep in mind, if parent isn’t set, or you don’t specify a comma-separated list of term ids to migrate, it will migrate all terms for that taxonomy to the new taxonomy.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Really useful
by goldeneagle·2 months ago
A really useful plugin for when you realise you need to refine your data structure. Works like a charm, switching terms between categories, tags and custom taxonomies.
Solid tool.
by trinadin·6 months ago
Simple and effective tool. The best kind.
Great!
by mllapan·1 year ago
Great!
Excellent
by bernardberry646·2 years ago
Work perfectly with a multitude of heavily hierarchical Parent / Child categories.
Thank you @webdevstudios @sc0ttkclark @jtsternberg
Kudos to CLI support
by Lax Mariappan·2 years ago
I started using this plugin recently
Thanks for the CLI support
Works as expected
Download Trends
Today: 17Yesterday: 26This week: 153Period total: 12K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
50.6%
v1.1
49.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.0
- Updated: Confirmed 6.9 compatibility.
- Updated: Converted away from jQuery.
- Updated: Disable “parent” selector field if “from” taxonomy is not hierarchical.
- Updated: Limit taxonomy lists to public only.
Contributors
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