Title: WP Export Categories & Taxonomies Author: Damian Published: December 16, 2013 Last modified: June 25, 2014 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/wp-export-categories-taxonomies.svg) # WP Export Categories & Taxonomies By [Damian](https://profiles.wordpress.org/timersys/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-export-categories-taxonomies.1.0.3.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/) ## Description Simple and basic plugin that let you export Categories, Tags and Taxonomies into a WordPress xml so you can import them in other sites using the WordPress importer tool ## Installation 1. Go to Plugins > Add New 2. Click the Upload link 3. Click Browse and locate the `wp-export-categories.x.x.zip` file 4. Click Install Now 5. After WordPress installs, click on the Activate Plugin link You’re done! ## FAQ Where do I find this great tool in my wp-admin? Just go to Tools-> WP Export Cats & Taxs ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cdcb3e78dfe8f049acab3c6d4e7a63950352af99f455a2b4b0ad00865b9ed5e4? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Essential tool for getting new taxonomies from dev to staging/live](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/essential-tool-for-getting-new-taxonomies-from-dev-to-staging-live/)󠁿 [webaware](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webaware/) September 23, 2024 Once a website has been delivered, any new work in the database needs to be copied across from dev sites to staging and live sites somehow. WordPress has basic support for exporting / importing posts, but if you only want to bring taxonomies across, it has nothing. This handy plugin lets you do that. Nice job, and many thanks! It may not have been updated in a while, but still working very well on WordPress 6.6 in 2024. There are PHP deprecation warnings in PHP 8.3 (and likely 8.2) but they are only warnings. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/41d86f6aeab41087a16bf3cc184ed2e0f3ad80d8a74fbd2e5278225972984a78? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Very useful, works as intended](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-works-as-intended/)󠁿 [kocsisjozsef](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kocsisjozsef/) June 30, 2021 Had to export Woocommerce categories, this plugin was just the perfect tool. The export format can be used with the default Wordpress importer, so there is no need to install anything on the importer side. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4a5e6ac59cad00124d2f2ae54158fac9e4728f4d6e1ac25a3c4e5cd93824d047? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great ,simple and working perfectly](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-simple-and-working-perfectly/)󠁿 [Ahmednhussein](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ahmednhussein/) February 12, 2021 when I saw date 7 years ago, I was going to skip it but reviews encouraged me to try it. and really thanks it is working great and simple. Thanks a lot and for plugin creator also thanks for everyone wrote positive review. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9a67d815d751ab662aa64282b517a77a59502cfdcaba00fedd46774407294f7e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works perfect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-perfect-829/)󠁿 [milenfrom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/milenfrom/) September 11, 2020 Works as described ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/17dd4f0f6977f9d40b78c8ad459717f23d33db9bebfaa764d488481b08e68b61? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Still works great, even for WooCommerce](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-works-great-even-for-woocommerce/)󠁿 [Tahoe](https://profiles.wordpress.org/morceaudebois/) September 3, 2020 Managed to import my product categories and tags in a few minutes. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7b7b3f0e7c46ebeeb5e1b1127923b87ccc973dddf11393a695e366c774145985? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Still works in 5.4.2!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-works-in-5-4-2/)󠁿 [Els Guns](https://profiles.wordpress.org/els-guns/) June 13, 2020 Awesome, thanks! 👍 [ Read all 26 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “WP Export Categories & Taxonomies” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Damian ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/timersys/) [Translate “WP Export Categories & Taxonomies” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-export-categories-taxonomies) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.3 * Cleaned a bit more of code * Fixed small bug with checkbox ID’s #### 1.0.2 * Changed the export action to a later hook to include plugins tax that were registered later * Cleaned a bit the code #### 1.0.1 * Fixed fatal error including settings. Sorry 🙂 #### 1.0 * Plugin released, woohoo! ## Meta * Version **1.0.3** * Last updated **12 years ago** * Active installations **400+** * WordPress version ** 3.6 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.9.40** * Tags * [categories](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)[export categories](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/export-categories/) [taxonomies](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/taxonomies/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.8 out of 5 stars. * [ 23 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 2 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 1 3-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-export-categories-taxonomies/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Damian ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/timersys/) ## Support Got something to say? 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