Taxonomy Tidy

Description

Taxonomy Tidy helps site owners and agencies review categories, tags, WooCommerce terms, and other registered taxonomies before cleaning them up.

The scan is read-only. It reports:

• Repeated term labels within the same taxonomy.
• Labels that differ only by case, spacing, punctuation, or accents.
• Terms with no assigned objects.

Select several duplicate groups, choose one canonical term for each group, and review all affected assignments, hierarchy changes, and archive URLs together before applying one batch. You can also select multiple empty terms for one reviewed removal batch. Each operation is written to a site-local audit log before WordPress updates term assignments. Activity can roll back the complete batch and restore the original term and taxonomy IDs, saved term metadata, relationships, and hierarchy. Rollback checks for conflicting later changes and stops rather than overwriting them. Activity also lets you resume recovery after an interrupted request; review any reported conflict before retrying.

The plugin works only with taxonomies available to the current user on the current site. It does not send term data to a remote service or add front-end assets. Merges can optionally create a permanent same-site redirect from each removed term archive to its canonical archive. Removing an empty term records an HTTP 410 Gone response for its former public archive. Both behaviors are saved with the audit operation and are removed when that operation is rolled back.

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