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Total downloads: 62,382
Active installs: 2,000
Total reviews: 23
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 1
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 7
Last updated: 6/2/2025 (212 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 2/2/2014 (11 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.2
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 212 days ago • Support resolved 0% • 23 reviews

32/100

Is Taxonomy Switcher abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 212 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.2
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.4

Ratings

22
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Developers

webdevstudios (Owner)8Scott Kingsley Clark (Owner)12Justin Sternberg (Owner)17webdevstudios21pluginize11Scott Kingsley Clark6Justin Sternberg5

Languages

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Description

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 WP-CLI. In the command line, type in wp taxonomy-switcher for instructions.

Plugin is on GitHub. Pull Requests and Forks welcome.

Notes

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.

Pluginize was launched in 2016 by WebDevStudios to promote, support, and house all of their WordPress products. Pluginize is not only creating new products for WordPress all the time, but also provides ongoing support and development for WordPress community favorites like CPTUI, CMB2, and more.

Installation

  1. Backup!
  2. Upload ‘taxonomy-switcher’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  4. Navigate to the ‘Taxonomy Switcher’ admin page. You’ll find the menu item under the ‘Tools’ menu item on the left.
  5. Select your “From”, and “To” Taxonomies.
  6. a) 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. OR b) Add a comma-separated list of term ids to switch.
  7. Switch them!

Frequently Asked Questions

No FAQ available

Review feed

Rhys Wynne
9/20/2018

This saved my bottom!

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.
useStrict
3/11/2019

Awesome Tool!

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!
wpexplorer
10/22/2022

Awesome!

Does exactly what it claims to do and works flawlessly. Thanks!!
Lax Mariappan
5/19/2023

Kudos to CLI support

I started using this plugin recentlyThanks for the CLI support Works as expected

Screenshots

  1. Admin page

    Admin page

  2. Live-searching for a parent term

    Live-searching for a parent term

Changelog

1.0.8

  • Updated: Confirmed WP 6.8 compatibility.
  • Updated: Misc little code cleanups that should not affect anyone.

1.0.7

  • Updated: Confirmed WP 6.5 compatibility.

1.0.6

  • Updated: Confirmed WP 6.4 compatibility.
  • Updated: Moved capability back to manage_options to sync with options page.
  • Updated: Clear caches after conversion.
  • Fixed: PHP8 deprecation notices.

1.0.5

  • Updated: Confirmed WP 6.2.1 compatibility.

1.0.4

  • Updated: changed required capability to manage_categories

1.0.3

  • Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 5.4.0

1.0.2

  • Update for xss vulnerability, https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2015/04/20/fixing-add_query_arg-and-remove_query_arg-usage

1.0.1

  • Add ability to switch comma-separated list of term IDs.

1.0.0

  • Release
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