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Many WordPress installs suffer from cramming hundreds or thousands of varied taxonomy terms in to a limited number of ill-suited, all-purpose taxonomies (eg. the default “categories” and “tags”).
These are better off split in to dedicated taxonomies. For example, storing “Bill Gates” and “Microsoft” terms in “tags” is not optimal, because one is a person whilst the other is a company.
There is no straightforward way to split up existing taxonomies more granularly in this way, except for labour-intensive and manual, technical effort. So, many WordPress installs continue to suffer from not having created granular taxonomies intentionally at the outset.
Term Tidier tidies up messy taxonomies like these automatically. It uses natural language processing and knowledge graph technology to determine the real <a href="https://gcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_modules/google/cloud/language/entity.html#EntityType" rel="nofollow ugc">entity type</a> of existing terms, then re-assigns them each to a more appropriate, alternative taxonomy.
<h3>How it works</h3>
Term Tidier uses Google Cloud’s Natural Language Processing features via API calls.
Users set a “source taxonomy”, the taxonomy they want to be tidied up.
For each term within that taxonomy, Term Tidier calls Google Cloud to examine the term name, aiming to return a determination as to its true “entity”.
The plugin receives one of eight “entity” type determinations from Google Cloud – UNKNOWN, PERSON, LOCATION, ORGANIZATION, EVENT, WORK_OF_ART, CONSUMER_GOOD or OTHER.
For each entity type, users specify a target taxonomy to which a matching term will be moved. For example, you can map all terms found to be a “LOCATION” to your own “Places” taxonomy, if it exists.
For each term in the source taxonomy, if a particular entity was determined, Term Tidier moves the term to your corresponding taxonomy.
<h4>Usage</h4>
Use Term Tidier from the WordPress Tools menu (Tools > Context Term Tidier).
The plugin page confirms your settings as set in Settings, displaying the taxonomy and terms which will be examined.
Click the “Tidy Terms” button to execute the operation.
Term Tidier will cycle through each term, seeking an “entity” determination and re-assigning any terms possible.

Context Term Tidier

Tidies taxonomies that contain a mess of unrelated terms by using AI to move terms to more appropriate taxonomies.

webdevstudios

Justin Sternberg

Scott Kingsley Clark

pluginize

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 <a href="http://wp-cli.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-CLI</a>. In the command line, type in <code>wp taxonomy-switcher</code> for instructions.
<a href="https://github.com/WebDevStudios/taxonomy-switcher" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin is on GitHub</a>. Pull Requests and Forks welcome.
<h3>Notes</h3>
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.
<a href="https://pluginize.com/?utm_source=taxonomy-switcher&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=wporg" rel="nofollow ugc">Pluginize</a> was launched in 2016 by <a href="https://webdevstudios.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WebDevStudios</a> to promote, support, and house all of their <a href="https://pluginize.com/shop/?utm_source=taxonomy-switcher&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=wporg" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress products</a>. Pluginize is not only creating new products for WordPress all the time, but also provides <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/" rel="ugc">ongoing support and development for WordPress community favorites like CPTUI</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/cmb2/" rel="ugc">CMB2</a>, and more.

Taxonomy Switcher

Not sure the forum policy on swearing on here, but this plugin is chuffing amazing, saved my bottom recently as I imported ~7000 term into the wrong taxonomy, and it transferred it over no fuss.

This saved my bottom!

Don't let the small number of active installs fool you: This tool does what it says and does it well. Once the data is modified, most people (like myself) probably uninstall it.

Kudos to the Authors!

Awesome Tool!

Does exactly what it claims to do and works flawlessly. Thanks!!

Awesome!


I started using this plugin recentlyThanks for the CLI support



Works as expected


Kudos to CLI support

Switch the taxonomy for all terms or only child terms of a specified parent term.

Context Term Tidier vs Taxonomy Switcher