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Term Management Tools
The ultimate janitor for your messy WordPress categories.
HealthyGrowing
89/100
This stable utility handles complex taxonomy reorganizations and earns high praise from satisfied users.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.9★
76 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+268%
Growing fast
34 → 125 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +268% in the last year
34/day a year ago→125/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayTerm Management Tools is praised for reliably handling taxonomy merging and conversion, especially for complex product categories, with long-term stability, though it lacks automatic handling of WooCommerce variation attributes after merges.
What people like
- +Enables merging, moving, and reorganizing taxonomy terms, including combining multiple categories into one×5
- +Handles complex product category hierarchies (20+ categories)×2
- +Allows conversion between categories and tags and combining taxonomies on the categories/tags pages×2
- +Works with WooCommerce product attribute taxonomy terms and remains compatible with newer WooCommerce versions (e.g., 3.6.2)×2
- +Stable and functional over many years without needing frequent updates×4
- +Simple to use and does not require support×2
Common complaints
- −Does not automatically swap attribute terms for product variations after merging, requiring manual re-adding
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.92★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 76 total
Latest reviews · 76 analyzed
- 2026-02-25★★★★★Saved me ton of timeswdgr
- 2023-08-10★★★★★Very HelpfulCory Lamle
- 2023-06-02★★★★★EssentialSunny
- 2022-09-14★★★★★Excellent Plugin! It saved me!potel
- 2021-12-31★★★★★Works GoodАндрей
- 2021-06-08★★★★★Supernielsmyname
- 2021-06-07★★★★★Very usefulMadovsky
- 2021-05-18★★★★★It simply worksstrarsis
- 2021-03-27★★★★★Works great!jodzeee
- 2020-07-26★★★★★Awesome pluginBruno Apr
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
82
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
108
Prior 7-day baseline
146
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
353
Mean release-day peak (30d)
327
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-24.1%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
4.06
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
95%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.91 → 4.92★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered