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carawebs/wp-better-taxonomy-description
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WordPress plugin for better taxonomy description.

0.0.1(9y ago)015MITPHPPHP >=5.4

Since Mar 3Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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BetterTaxonomy
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[](#bettertaxonomy)

This plugin replaces the improves the default description field for WordPress taxonomy terms.

It works for Categories, Tags or Custom Taxonomies.

> Get rid of the textarea description for selected WordPress Taxonomy descriptions, and replace it with a WYSIWYG field.

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License
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[](#license)

BetterTaxonomy is licensed under [GPL2](https://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php).

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Setup
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[](#setup)

1. Clone this repo into `/wp-content/plugins`
2. Activate plugin
3. Set the target Taxonomies in "Dashboard" >> "Settings" >> "Taxonomy Description"
4. Edit term description fields

Prior Art
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[](#prior-art)

The idea for this plugin comes from:

###  Health Score

22

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LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3357d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c38e49a1a85eefd2df7a474f29ae405f19776226001bfe91d6fa0c849b7d69b9?d=identicon)[DavidEgan](/maintainers/DavidEgan)

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Top Contributors

[![csknk](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5287744?v=4)](https://github.com/csknk "csknk (22 commits)")

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Tags

wordpress

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