pantsonhead

<p>Categories and Tags are tricky – sometimes they take a bit of experimentation to get right, and when we change the way we want to do things and we end up with a mess to clean up. This is when Taxonomy Toolbox can help.</p>
<p>This plugin provides the following tools to help manage your taxonomies:</p>
<ul>
<li>Summarize current Taxonomies</li>
<li>Convert Tags to Categories</li>
<li>Convert Categories to Tags</li>
<li>Delete empty Tags or Categories</li>
<li>Identify and Merge Tags/Categories that exist for the same term</li>
<li>Force a recount of objects associated for all taxonomies</li>
<li>Delete any orphaned data</li>
</ul>


Taxonomy Toolbox

A bit premature for a through review, but when I realized my old stand by Term Management Tools didn't provide for bulk converting tags to categories I was happy to find this... and it worked!



Worked great converting tags to categories

Worked for me to quickly see which custom taxonomies were configured on the site.

Worked for me to see which custom taxonomies were configured on the site.

Taxonomy Toolbox allows you to quickly review and update your Categories, Tags and other taxonomies.

Felix Arntz

<p>The plugin adds two taxonomies to the WordPress media library which are then available to categorize and tag your attachments. By default, these taxonomies, although sharing the same names and behavior, are separate from the default post taxonomies, but this can easily be changed if desired.</p>
<p>The plugin follows WordPress Core principles and offers a lightweight alternative to similar approaches which often tend to be incredibly flexible, but at the same time complicated and bloated. And if you have a little knowledge of code, you should be able to adjust the plugin exactly to your needs if the default configuration doesn’t satisfy you.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Adds categories and tags to the Media Library (independent from the regular post categories and tags)</li>
<li>Inserts filter dropdowns for attachment taxonomies into the media toolbar and media modal</li>
<li>Allows to pick taxonomy terms for attachments from within the Attachment Selection & Edit modals</li>
<li>Adds a setting for the default attachment category</li>
<li>Enhances the <code>[gallery]</code> shortcode so that images of a specific attachment taxonomy can be included automatically</li>
</ul>
<h4>Quality attributes</h4>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight plugin following WordPress Core principles</li>
<li>“Decisions, not Options”</li>
<li>Can easily be used as a must-use plugin</li>
<li>Provides a flexible API to add other attachment taxonomies or disable the existing ones for developers</li>
<li>Provides an easy-to-use <code>has_default</code> argument that can be used when registering an attachment taxonomy in order to automatically add a setting for the default taxonomy term</li>
</ul>


Attachment Taxonomies

Works perfect!

Now this is a piece of art!  No bloat, no hassle.  Well done Felix!

Piece of Art

This plugin adds categories and tags to the WordPress media library - lightweight and developer-friendly.

Taxonomy Toolbox vs Attachment Taxonomies