Best category plugins for WordPress
446 plugins tagged “category” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.
Remove Category Word From Title
Up in the last 7 days:18#9,356by ausafmalik899 years ago
Remove Category Word From Title is basically used to remove the word Category: from the title when comes when you create a menu as a category.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Simple Taxonomy Refreshed
Up in the last 7 days:23#9,390by nwjames1 month ago
This plugin provides a no-code facility to manage your taxonomies - either by defining your own or by adding additional function to existing ones.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Single Category Permalink
Up in the last 7 days:1#9,419by Scott Reilly5 years ago
Reduce permalinks (category or post) that include entire hierarchy of categories to just having the lowest level category.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

GA Admin Taxonomy Search
Down in the last 7 days:53#9,583by Grigor Asatryan2 years ago
Make it easy to search/filter items in your admin categories meta box.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomy Checklist Tree
Down in the last 7 days:34#9,768by webvitalii6 years ago
Plugin sets Category/Taxonomy checklist hierarchical tree-view by default.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day

Category Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:25#9,842by Katsushi Kawamori2 months ago
Set a featured image for post by a category.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 2.9(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Home Categories
Up in the last 7 days:3#9,930by msng13 years ago
Filters the categories of posts shown on your front page.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.5(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Remove Archive Label
Up in the last 7 days:2#10,082by oguido5 years ago
Removes the “Category:”, “Tag:”, “Author:”, “Archives:” and “Taxonomy:” in the archive title.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Category Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:35#10,120by George Stephanis5 months ago
This widget will let you display a list of the most recent posts in a single category in your sidebar.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Custom Taxonomy Sort
Down in the last 7 days:9#10,178by Zack Tollman15 years ago
Custom Taxonomy Sort allows you to explicitly control the sort order of all taxonomy terms.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.0(14)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Multicolumn Category Widget
Up in the last 7 days:67#10,403by Arno Welzel2 months ago
This widget displays top level categories in multiple columns.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Hide Category by User Role for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:43#10,443by ThemeSupport5 months ago
This plugin allows you to easily hide WooCommerce categories based on User Role.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Blog Post Filter
Up in the last 7 days:29#10,707by ammar.shahraki6 years ago
Blog Post Filter filters frontpage posts by their categories.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.6(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Category Post Widget
Up in the last 7 days:12#10,798by Teja Amilineni12 years ago
Category Post widget displays posts from a specific category. Number of posts to be displayed can be customized.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

WPB Floating Menu or Categories
Up in the last 7 days:41#10,799by WPBean12 days ago
WPB Floating Menu or Categories adds a sticky floating side menu with icons to improve navigation and usability on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

WP Remove Category from Archive Title
Down in the last 7 days:123#10,817by Isrg Rajan1 year ago
WP Remove Category from Archive Title helps you remove the default "Category:" prefix from archive titles, improving SEO and readability.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Media Categories
Down in the last 7 days:32#10,823by Eddie Moya14 years ago
Easily assign categories to media with a clean, simple, and searchable category meta box. Then use the gallery shortcode to display category galleries
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.4(7)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Category Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:11#10,911by robertdrake16 years ago
Plugin adds shortcode capability for adding posts by category to a page.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hikari Category Permalink
Down in the last 7 days:28#10,974hikari-category-permalink16 years ago
For each post, author can choose which category is used in permalink.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day

GamiPress
Down in the last 7 days:158#11,242by Ruben Garcia11 months ago
Setup activity triggers by post categories on GamiPress
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Duplicate Content Cure
Up in the last 7 days:23#11,289by Badi Jones11 years ago
Duplicate content cure is a simple plugin that improves SEO by preventing search engines from indexing pages that contain duplicate content.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Thumbnail List
Down in the last 7 days:16#11,489by Johan Jonk Stenström2 years ago
Lists categories, author pages and archives with thumbnails. Use shortcode [categorythumbnaillist 1] where 1 is the category id.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Advanced Random Posts
Down in the last 7 days:12#11,756by yakuphan9 years ago
Display random posts from selected categories or current category or all posts with thumbnail images (optional).
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Posts per Cat
Down in the last 7 days:235#11,784by Aleksandar Urošević1 year ago
Group recent posts by category and show them inside boxes organized to columns.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Hide Categories
Down in the last 7 days:17#11,895by Eduardo15 years ago
Hide one o more categories when you use the_category tag or wp_list_categories tag. No exclude post, but only hide a category name in template view.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP search category admin
Up in the last 7 days:12#12,018by Clement Decou3 years ago
Add a search input into a Post edit Page to add fast category for a Post and in quick edit.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Related Posts by Category Widget
Down in the last 7 days:35#12,020by dcannon116 years ago
Customizable widget area that displays posts from the same categories as the current post.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PE Category Filter
Up in the last 7 days:111#12,127by Pavel Espinal2 months ago
Modern WordPress plugin for filtering categories from home page with performance optimization and security enhancements.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Category For Pages
Down in the last 7 days:23#12,405by A. H. M. Anawar Parvez9 years ago
Adds categories and tags functionality for your pages.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Display Categories Tree
#12,763by aoulmderat6 years ago
This plugin is a widget to customize and add more css options to the Default Wordpress Category Widget. This plugin requires fontawesome in your theme …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Random Gallery
Down in the last 7 days:57#12,827by David G3 years ago
Random Gallery displays a different subset of your images every time your page is refreshed.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.5(11)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Exclude Category Widget
Up in the last 7 days:10#12,900by Ravinder Singh10 years ago
The widget will use for showing category list. You can exclude unwanted categories from category list.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Primary Category
Down in the last 7 days:39#13,637by Ashar Irfan3 years ago
A light-weight WordPress plugin to assign primary category to posts and custom post types.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Count Posts in a Category, Tag, or Custom Taxonomy
Up in the last 7 days:26#13,793by Luke Mlsna14 years ago
Adds a custom shortcode that returns the number of posts in a category, tag, or custom taxonomy. Accepts a slug (default), ID, or name as input and wo …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Categories Multiple Images
Up in the last 7 days:42#13,866by Binternet8 years ago
The Categories Multiple Images Plugin allow you to add image unlimited images to category or any other taxonomy.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multiple Category Selection Widget
Up in the last 7 days:5#13,878by zackdesign8 months ago
Filter posts by selecting multiple categories using dropdown menus. Available as a widget, block, or shortcode.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 2.9(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Category Description Widget
Up in the last 7 days:69#13,894by Dominik Schwind9 years ago
Enables a widget with the category description.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Force Post Category Selection
Up in the last 7 days:16#13,937by Jatinder Pal Singh11 years ago
This is simple plugin which forces the users to select atleast one category from the list while publishing a new post.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.8(10)
- Downloads
- 6/day
POST CATEGORY HEIGHT EDIT
Down in the last 7 days:49#13,990by gqevu6bsiz11 years ago
It is adjustable plugin the height of the category meta box of edit posts screen.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Listing for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:19#13,993by Alexander Juul Jakobsen3 years ago
Increase user-experience by listing both products and categories on your shop pages in separate lists. Easy setup. Install and activate only.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Category Country Aware WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:146#14,002by wrigs15 years ago
Make both your post content and sidebar category and/or visitor location relevant.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
MindCat
Down in the last 7 days:143#14,440by NOUS Open Usefull & Simple1 month ago
Enhanced category display as mindmap or list of cards with colors and images.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Remove Parent Category from Slug
Up in the last 7 days:30#14,647by Sirius Pro1 year ago
Simply Remove Parent Category from Slug and show only child category in WordPress permalink.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Ajax Load More for Terms
Down in the last 7 days:104#14,728by Darren Cooney1 year ago
Ajax Load More extension that adds compatibility for infinite scrolling WordPress terms using term_query.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Tag Selector
Down in the last 7 days:88#14,903by robmarston10 years ago
Tag Selector allows you to select tags for your post/page much the same way you select categories.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Breadcrumbs Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:5#15,006by Puvox Software18 days ago
[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍 ] Show breadcrumbs for posts, pages and categories
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Display Category Post Count
Down in the last 7 days:145#15,172by amitk065 years ago
This plugin help you to display post count in category for wordpress post and woocommerce product
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Posts by Category
Down in the last 7 days:39#15,205by Shellbot8 years ago
Display a list of posts from a specific category or tag.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Buttons
Down in the last 7 days:234#15,281by Ryvenia2 years ago
Transform your online store with our simple plugin! The Category Buttons plugin makes it effortless to enhance your shop pages by adding custom catego …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Posts Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:16#15,284by Punit Patel3 years ago
A simple plugin that adds a shortcode to display posts from a specified category.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day