Plugin info

Total downloads: 3,350
Active installs: 10
Total reviews: 1
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 6
Last updated: 6/13/2025 (201 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 11/28/2022 (3 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.9
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 201 days ago • 1 reviews

40/100

Is Shadow Terms abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 201 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.9
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.4

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Description

Shadow Terms registers custom (shadow) taxonomies for supported post types. These taxonomies can be used to associate related content from a variety of post types.

When a new post of a supported post type is created, a term mirroring that post is also created. When editing another post type that supports this taxonomy, this term can be assigned to associate the posts.

Shadow Terms does not register support for itself on any post types by default. Custom code must be added to a plugin or theme.

Support can be added to a custom post type with code like:

With the example above, whenever an organization is created, a term with the same name will be created under the organization_connect taxonomy. When a person or press release is edited, that term will be available for assignment through standard WordPress taxonomy interfaces.

Code can then be written to query and display all people or press releases related to an organization.

Installation

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Review feed

shawfactor
6/24/2025

Great work

These types of plugins are essential for working around the shortcomings of WordPress and at the same time sticking to standards, thankyou all

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Changelog

1.2.2

  • No functional changes.
  • Bump phpstan to level 7.
  • Update development dependencies.
  • Confirm WordPress 6.8 support.

1.2.1

  • No functional changes.
  • Exclude phpstan config from distribution.
  • Update development dependencies.
  • Confirm WordPress 6.6 support.

1.2.0

  • Do not show “Add New” term option for shadow taxonomies, which are automatically managed. Thanks @s3rgiosan!
  • Do not show shadow terms in REST API to unauthenticated users if their original post type is not publicly available via REST endpoint.

1.1.0

  • Add filtering to shadow taxonomy taxonomy arguments.
  • Update development tooling.

1.0.1

  • Fix: Ensure term and post slugs sync properly on post update.

1.0.0

Initial release.