Joost de Valk

One of the most common SEO problems on WordPress sites is that people add too many tags to posts. In fact, <a href="https://fewertags.com/research/" rel="nofollow ugc">our research shows</a> that most WordPress sites use tags wrong. The WordPress interface makes it incredibly easy to do so, and with every tag you add, you add another URL to your site for search engines to crawl and index. This plugin minimizes that effect by setting a minimum number of posts needed for a tag to be “live” on your site.
Fewer Tags Free solves this problem for you! It does that by simply not showing tags that have less than 10 posts in them to users and search engines.
Tags that have less than the configured number of posts:
<ul>
<li>Are hidden from visitors and search engines on your site, and are redirected to your homepage.</li>
<li>They don’t show up in tag listings.</li>
<li>The are no longer linked in WordPress core’s or Yoast SEO or Slim SEO generated XML sitemaps.</li>
</ul>
This positively affects your site’s SEO and also leads to less crawling, as you have less useless tag pages.
See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KItn1X1qMas" rel="nofollow ugc">this video</a> if you want to learn how to use Fewer Tags Free.
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If you want to truly solve the tag problem on your site, consider the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkF3Y6iIoDk" rel="nofollow ugc">Fewer Tags Pro plugin & course</a>. It’ll help you fix the problems with tags on your site very quickly.
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You can buy Fewer Tags Pro (or read more about it) on <a href="https://fewertags.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">fewertags.com</a>!

Fewer Tags Free

This plugin minimizes the effect of having too many tags by setting a minimum number of posts needed for a tag to be “live” on your site.

Erick Hitter

Creates dropdown lists of non-hierarchical taxonomies (such as <code>post tags</code>) as an alternative to term (tag) clouds. Multiple widgets can be used, each with its own set of options.
Numerous formatting options are provided, including maximum numbers of terms, term order, truncating of term names, and more.
Using the <code>taxonomy_dropdown_widget()</code> function, users can generate dropdowns for use outside of the included widget.
Only use version 2.2 or higher with WordPress 4.2 and later releases. WordPress 4.2 changed how taxonomy information is stored in the database, which directly impacts this plugin’s include/exclude term functionality.
This plugin was formerly known as the <code>Tag Dropdown Widget</code>. It was completely rewritten for version 2.0.
Follow and contribute to development on GitHub at https://github.com/ethitter/Taxonomy-Dropdown-Widget.

Taxonomy Dropdown Widget

Creates a dropdown list of non-hierarchical taxonomies as an alternative to the term (tag) cloud. Formerly known as Tag Dropdown Widget.

Fewer Tags Free vs Taxonomy Dropdown Widget