Term Management Tool

A lightweight, secure admin utility that makes bulk taxonomy housekeeping fast and safe. With Term Management Tool you can quickly re-parent groups of terms (for hierarchical taxonomies) or merge multiple terms into a single target — across any taxonomy on your WordPress site. Ideal for content managers, editors and site admins who need to tidy categories, tags, or custom taxonomies without touching the database directly.

Key benefits

• Save hours of manual edits — change parent relationships for many terms at once.
• Clean up duplicate or fragmented tags by merging them into a single canonical term.
• Safe operations with capability checks and nonce verification so only authorized admins can run actions.
• Works with any taxonomy (categories, tags, or custom taxonomies).
• Clear admin UI with taxonomy switcher, select-all, and helpful notices.

Top features

• Admin tools page: Tools → Term Management Tool — quick access to manage terms.
• Taxonomy switcher: pick any registered taxonomy to manage from a single screen.
• Bulk parent assignment: set a new parent or remove parents (make top-level) for selected terms (for hierarchical taxonomies).
• Bulk merge: move all objects from selected terms into a chosen target term, then remove the merged terms.

Safe-guards:

• Capability requirement (manage_categories) — only permitted users can perform actions.
• Nonce verification to prevent CSRF.
• Prevention of circular parent relationships and self-parenting.
• Helpful admin notices and error reporting (transient-based error list shown after redirect).
• Works with custom post types — objects assigned to terms are re-assigned via wp_set_object_terms() which supports any post type.

Who it’s for

• Site owners cleaning up category structures.
• Editors consolidating tag clouds.
• Developers & content teams prepping taxonomies before migrations or launches.