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.

ID Arrays
Up in the last 7 days:119#15,420by harman7910 years ago
Get list of post IDs by taxonomy, post-type, template. Add ID column in posts, media, taxonomies, users screens with option to copy selected IDs.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Widget to Display Posts from Current Category
Down in the last 7 days:136#15,498by gruz07 years ago
This plugin allows you to display posts from the current category in the sidebar.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Featured Category Widget
Up in the last 7 days:42#15,543by tepelstreel10 years ago
The Featured Category Widget is basically a Featured Post Widget for a category.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Cloud Widget
Down in the last 7 days:57#15,653by vertino18 years ago
The Category Cloud Widget is a widget that displays your categories as a tag cloud in your sidebar.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Image(s)
Up in the last 7 days:14#15,762by Scott Reilly14 years ago
Display an image for each category associated with a post.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Page Categorizer
Up in the last 7 days:117#15,845by Patrick Lumumba2 months ago
Easily add Categories to WordPress Pages.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Taxonomy Query Filter
Down in the last 7 days:78#15,898by Twenty Bellows7 months ago
Add interactive taxonomy filtering to Query Loop blocks for categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Category Show
#15,947by chackal_sjc15 years ago
Shows all posts from a category/tag into a page/post with order support.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fix Category Count
Down in the last 7 days:54#16,124by a 53 minute production1 month ago
This plugin will allow you to easily repair and fix your category count for posts, pages and custom post types.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Move category description below products for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:61#16,151by kazinishatit4 years ago
We are trying to get our woocommerce product category descriptions to the bottom of the page so the products show first. I tried all the suggestions in this topic but none of them worked like they should. The following…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Weart Category Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:89#16,378by Balazs7 years ago
Weart Category Posts Widget displays the latest posts in the sidebar from a picked category with featured image.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Template Hierarchy
Down in the last 7 days:15#16,480by Eddie Moya14 years ago
Adds parent-category.php, child-category.php, and child-category-{slug|id} templates to the hierarchy and conditional tags to match.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Post Auto Vertical Scrolling
#16,517by Md. Shahinur Islam7 months ago
Post Auto Vertical Scrolling plugins bottom to top. Simple but flexible.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Custom Category Meta
Up in the last 7 days:43#16,535by Musilek12 years ago
Allow you to add custom meta tags and title for category.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Manager for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:3#16,635by Ali Masoumi1 year ago
A plugin to manage and organize WooCommerce product categories with advanced features and an intuitive interface.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Parent Children Selector
Down in the last 7 days:120#16,648by WenZe12 years ago
Helps you in selecting parent-children categories.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP-Parsi navigation trees
Up in the last 7 days:84#16,689by Morteza Geransayeh8 years ago
This plugin create dynamic expand/collapse tree-widget navigation from wordpress nav menu.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Excluder Widget
#16,712by Tranons14 years ago
This widget allows you to easily create a specific category list. You can exclude any categories you please.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove Parents
Down in the last 7 days:566#16,941by alekc19 years ago
Remove Parents is a tiny plugin which remove "category" and parent categories from permalink.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Hide Category
Down in the last 7 days:15#17,049by Arefly12 years ago
Hide specific category in your blog.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 2.6(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomy Tree Toggler
Down in the last 7 days:65#17,068by sskaje5 years ago
Check all parent taxonomies on check, uncheck all sub-taxnomies on uncheck. Compatible with WordPress Gutenberg. Working with WordPress hierarchical …
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Taxonomy Templates
Up in the last 7 days:4#17,195by shazdeh10 years ago
Define custom templates for taxonomy archive views.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Simple Category Icons
Down in the last 7 days:125#17,272by Bas Schuiling12 years ago
A simple way to add icons to your categories and other taxonomies.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.5(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Extended Featured Widget
Up in the last 7 days:61#17,525by Chinmoy11 years ago
Extended Featured Content Widget is a powerful, light weight wordpress plugin that helps you can organize your post/page content beautifully.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

TG Customized Tags
Down in the last 7 days:61#17,710by Ashok Dhamija11 years ago
Display fully customized and configurable tags, categories or other taxonomy in tag-cloud with widget and shortcodes.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Gecka Terms Ordering
Down in the last 7 days:131#17,735by Gecka11 years ago
Order your categories, tags or any other taxonomy's terms of your Wordpress website.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Archives by Category and Date
Up in the last 7 days:242#17,818by WEN Solutions1 month ago
This plugin shows archives in a categorized way that is archives are categorized under category name and date.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Category Archives
Up in the last 7 days:74#17,848by Hiroshi Sawai10 years ago
This Widget display Category Archives links on category page.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Delete Duplicate Data
Up in the last 7 days:55#18,128by Varni Infotech12 years ago
Delete Duplicate Post, Page, Attachment and Custom Post
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.8(10)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Display Category Image For WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:157#18,306by Rajdip Sinha Roy6 years ago
Display Category Image on Product Category Archives.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Taxonomy Toolbox
Up in the last 7 days:51#18,495by pantsonhead11 years ago
Taxonomy Toolbox allows you to quickly review and update your Categories, Tags and other taxonomies.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Flynsarmy Subcategory List Widget
Down in the last 7 days:16#19,201by flynsarmy5 years ago
Adds a widget that can displays subcategories of a given category (or top level).
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Posts By Category Widget
Up in the last 7 days:134#19,257by volfro13 years ago
A simple, themeable widget which displays posts in the category, order, and quantity of your choosing.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rich Category Editor
Up in the last 7 days:19#19,270by Andrea Pernici17 years ago
Add TinyMce to the Category Description.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SEO Internal Link Shortcode
#19,549by Steven Vachon13 years ago
Internal links to posts, custom-type posts, pages, categories and tags with any HTML attribute(s).
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.8(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Post6WidgetArea
Down in the last 7 days:93#19,856by enomoto celtislab13 years ago
Add the widget area of 6 locations around the post article, etc..
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Color Picker
Up in the last 7 days:1,166#19,880by sarap4221 month ago
Add a color picker to WordPress categories and reflect category colors in post listings and links. Includes per-category noindex settings.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

oik batchmove
Up in the last 7 days:90#19,953by bobbingwide1 year ago
The oik-batchmove plugin enables you to perform mass updates to the categories assigned to posts. It also enables you to republish posts.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Excluder from Theme Customizer
Up in the last 7 days:172#19,955by Abhishek Sinha13 years ago
Administrator can easily exclude the posts from specific category/categories via WordPress live preview ( Theme Customizer )
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Categories Management Widget
Down in the last 7 days:267#20,168by Robinsh15 years ago
This plugin adds a widget which let you display a list of categories in your sidebar with more features and flexibility.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP SHOW CATEGORY ID
Down in the last 7 days:34#20,268by Md Yakub Mizan5 months ago
WP Show Category ID is simple plugin to show post category and WooCommerce product category IDs on category list page
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Widgets of Posts by Same Categories
Down in the last 7 days:41#20,435by alphasis15 years ago
The widget area lists posts of the same category as the current post.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Categories but exclude
Up in the last 7 days:106#20,451by PoseLab14 years ago
Displays all categories except those selected in widget preferences.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Accordion Categories
Up in the last 7 days:145#20,519by crosp9 years ago
Accordion Categories is a Wordpress widget that allows you to display categories in the hierachical order
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Responsive Posts Widget
Up in the last 7 days:45#20,626by Mahabub Hasan11 years ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
sCategory Permalink
Down in the last 7 days:178#21,279by Dmytro Shteflyuk17 years ago
Plugin allows to select category which will be used to generate permalink on post edit page. Use custom permalink option %scategory%.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Auto-Deselect Uncategorized
Down in the last 7 days:109#21,467by gnowland6 years ago
Deselect "Uncategorized" (or your chosen "default category") when others are selected; re-select it when no others are.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Almost All Categories Widget
Up in the last 7 days:230#21,528by George Stephanis16 years ago
This widget will let you display a category list in your sidebar, excluding any categories that you would like.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Recent Posts From Each Category
Up in the last 7 days:283#21,563by Mindstien Technologies12 years ago
Display Recent Posts From Each/Selected Category. Category Box View Plugin.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

LSX Search
Down in the last 7 days:34#21,579by Ash Shaw3 years ago
LSX Search integrates with FacetWP & allows you to easily display search results with filters.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day