Best categories plugins for WordPress

List category posts

#549

by Fernando Briano4 months ago

Very customizable plugin to list posts by category (or tag, author and more) in a post, page or widget. Uses the [catlist] shortcode to select posts.

Media Library Assistant

#609

by David Lingren10 days ago

Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.

PublishPress Taxonomies

#810

by PublishPress5 days ago

Tags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with PublishPress Taxonomies. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tag …

Media Library Categories

Up in the last 7 days:2#1,248

by jeffrey-wp2 months ago

Adds the ability to use categories in the media library.

FV Top Level Categories

Up in the last 7 days:3#1,304

by FolioVision1 year ago

This is a fix of Top Level Categories plugin for Wordpress 3.1. and above.

Post Tags and Categories for Pages

#1,359

by curtismchale10 months ago

Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages.

Visual Term Description Editor

Up in the last 7 days:1#1,520

by Shea Bunge2 years ago

Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor.

Essential Widgets

Down in the last 7 days:1#1,814

by Catch Themes4 months ago

Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option

Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce

Down in the last 7 days:2#1,867

by NOUS Open Usefull & Simple1 month ago

Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce. This plugins requires WooCommerce to be installed and activated

Allow HTML in Category Descriptions

Up in the last 7 days:1#2,399

by Arno Esterhuizen8 months ago

This plugin allows you to use unfiltered HTML in your category descriptions by disabling selected WordPress filters.

Flexible Posts Widget

Down in the last 7 days:1#2,511

by DaveE9 years ago

An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!

No Category Parents

Up in the last 7 days:18#2,710

by Sergio Milardovich2 months ago

Removes the mandatory 'Category Base' and every parent category from your category permalinks.

List categories

Up in the last 7 days:1#3,106

by Fernando Briano1 month ago

Simple plugin to display categories in any post or page with a shortcode.

Category Checklist Tree

Up in the last 7 days:2#3,109

by scribu9 years ago

Preserves the category hierarchy on the post editing screen

Collapsing Categories

Up in the last 7 days:1#3,400

by robfelty8 months ago

Adds a widget which uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of posts for each category.

Recent Posts by Category Widget

Down in the last 7 days:3#3,454

by Ross Cornell9 years ago

Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.

Display Categories Widget

Down in the last 7 days:1#3,719

by iteamweb7 years ago

Display Categories Widget will display Child categories on your sidebar. Can be placed on widget in sidebar.

Category Sticky Post

Down in the last 7 days:11#3,955

by Philip Arthur Moore9 years ago

Mark a post to be placed at the top of a specified category archive. It's sticky posts specifically for categories.

SEO Auto Linker

Down in the last 7 days:11#4,065

by Arjan Olsder1 year ago

SEO Auto Linker assists in creating cornerstone SEO content. This is not a full replacement for SEO plugins.

Top Level Categories

Down in the last 7 days:26#4,590

by Fortes9 years ago

This plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page (e.g. example.com/dogs instead of example.com/category/dogs)

Colorful Categories

Down in the last 7 days:3#4,760

by Artem P.1 year ago

New Categories widget in the awesome style! Bring colours to your categories widget - make every category in its colour.

WP Admin Category Search

Up in the last 7 days:20#4,882

by atillaordog3 years ago

This plugin adds search functionality to category-like taxonomies and dropdowns like author on add / edit post / page admin pages.

Enhanced Category Pages

Down in the last 7 days:3#4,937

by cip10 years ago

Create custom enhanced pages for categories and any taxonomy term and manage them as a custom post.

Bulk Term Generator

Down in the last 7 days:30#5,501

by Nate Allen2 years ago

Streamline taxonomy management in WordPress with Bulk Term Generator, your free tool for easy, bulk term importing.

Custom Recent Posts Widget

Up in the last 7 days:15#5,766

by Prasanna SP9 years ago

A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags

Categorized Tag Cloud

Down in the last 7 days:7#5,793

by whiletrue2 months ago

A cloud with the most used tags in a sidebar widget, filtered by post category.

WP Required Taxonomies

Up in the last 7 days:8#5,815

by Jose Vega2 months ago

Force users to select a taxonomy term when publishing posts. For example, make category or tags required

Post Category Filter (WP Admin)

Down in the last 7 days:32#6,216

by Ivijan-Stefan Stipic9 days ago

Quickly search and filter categories and taxonomies inside the WordPress admin.

JS Categories List Widget

Up in the last 7 days:3#6,416

by Miguel Useche7 months ago

A simple Gutenberg block and JS widget (can be called from posts) for displaying categories in a list with some effects.

Attachment Taxonomies

Down in the last 7 days:7#6,911

by Felix Arntz2 months ago

This plugin adds categories and tags to the WordPress media library - lightweight and developer-friendly.

Bulk Post Category Creator

Down in the last 7 days:55#7,099

by kartikparmar2 years ago

This easy-to-use plugin allows to create post categories in bulk and assign those categories to posts at the same time.

List Products By Category Widget for WooCommerce

Down in the last 7 days:8#7,159

by Blaze Concepts6 years ago

Display a list of all the products in a WooCommerce product category with this handy widget.

Automatik Blog

Down in the last 7 days:6#7,301

by Automatik Blog1 year ago

A plugin for integration with Automatik Blog, allowing automated publishing of SEO-optimized articles via REST API.

Blog-in-Blog

Up in the last 7 days:52#7,390

by timhodson9 months ago

This plugin shows posts from a category on any page you like using shortcodes. Create multiple blogs within a blog using a category.

WP Media Categories

Down in the last 7 days:4#7,511

by John James Jacoby1 month ago

Organize Media Library attachments with categories and filter them in list and grid views.

JSM Show Term Metadata

Up in the last 7 days:2#7,537

by JS Morisset10 days ago

Show term metadata in a metabox when editing terms - a great tool for debugging issues with term metadata.

Bulk Add Terms

Down in the last 7 days:23#7,640

by Sohan Zaman8 years ago

A lightweight plugin to add thousands of taxonomy terms in one go.

Map Categories to Pages

Up in the last 7 days:4#7,742

by Amit Verma14 years ago

Displays categories box on "Edit Page" page.

Advanced Categories Widget

Up in the last 7 days:14#7,775

by darrinb10 years ago

A highly customizable categories widget for WordPress with thumbnails and descriptions.

Most Popular Categories

Down in the last 7 days:15#8,342

by blueinstyle15 years ago

Display your most popular categories in a widget

Category Featured Images

Down in the last 7 days:30#8,353

by Mat11 years ago

Set a featured image for all the posts of a category.

Advanced Category Excluder

Down in the last 7 days:41#8,359

by DjZoNe13 years ago

The No.1 content separator, content manager, content excluder, sidebar widget manager plugin to enable CMS like functionality.

GUI for List Category Posts

Down in the last 7 days:11#8,502

by zymeth253 years ago

This plugin adds a graphical shortcode creator for the List Category Posts plugin, accessible via the "LCP" button in WordPress editor.

WP Export Categories & Taxonomies

Down in the last 7 days:19#9,571

by Damian12 years ago

Export Categories, Tags and Taxonomies

Post Tiles

Up in the last 7 days:1#9,572

by ethanhackett12 years ago

Post Tiles gives the ability to display posts as tiles. The tiles are color coded by category. The appearance is similar to windows 8 (Windows Metro).

Category Featured Images Extended

Up in the last 7 days:12#9,733

by CK MacLeod9 years ago

Set images for categories and tags, especially for fallback post thumbnails or featured images.

Taxonomy Checklist Tree

Down in the last 7 days:66#9,814

by webvitalii6 years ago

Plugin sets Category/Taxonomy checklist hierarchical tree-view by default.

WP REST API

Up in the last 7 days:14#9,847

by Andrew MAGIK10 years ago

This plugin include all available taxonomy attributes into the WordPress REST API (v2) without additional API requests.

Ultimate Tag Cloud Elementor Addon

Up in the last 7 days:20#9,920

by RSTheme3 months ago

Ultimate Tag Cloud enhances tag display with dynamic loading, Elementor integration, and stylish layouts for better taxonomy organization.

Home Categories

Up in the last 7 days:32#9,929

by msng13 years ago

Filters the categories of posts shown on your front page.