Category Tag Tidy

Allows quick and simple deletion of all unused categories and tags.
In order to maintain your categories structure – unused parent categories will not be deleted if they have a child category still in use.
For multisite installations unused tags and categories on all sites can be quickly processed at the same time.

Features

• Easily tidy up tags and categories on your site
• Maintains your existing category structure
• Easy for network admins to manage tags and categories across a wordpress multisite installation.
• Translation Ready

Documentation

• Select taxonomies to tidy – categories, tags or both

• Confirm on next screen

• For Multisite manage sites individually from each site’s admin or manage all sites together when in NetworkAdmin

• Users who have permission to ‘manage_categories’ can access this tool ie: Editors and higher

• Note – Unused Parent Categories will not be deleted if they have a child category still in use.

  • Categories or Tags still linked with content in the trash will not be deleted.

Links

• GitHub Repository

1. Unzip the downloaded package
2. Upload category-tag-tidy to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. Access Category Tag Tidy under the Tools menu (or main menu if multisite)

1. 

   Main Form

2. 

   Confirmation Page

3. 

   Results Page

4. 

   Network Admin Screen (multisite only)

1.0.0

• Initial Release