Best category plugins for WordPress

Custom Display Posts

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by wgyun443914 years ago

Adds a widget that shows the posts in a single or more category.

Category Pie

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by Peter J. Herrel11 years ago

The Category Pie plugin for WordPress adds a bit of extra flavor to those otherwise boring category administration pages.

WP Randomize

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by wpvar6 years ago

You can display categories and posts randomly with this widget.

Category Checkbox List Tree

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by Thien Do11 years ago

This plugin supports indenting the order of categories.

Category Templates

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by MACscr17 years ago

Give your categories and posts their own individual templates.

Nix Prefix

Down in the last 7 days:150#28,448

by sarah semark7 years ago

A super-simple plugin to remove the "Category:" prefix text on archive page titles.

Category 2 Post Type

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by erikdmitchell10 years ago

Allows you to move categories to custom post types and/or taxonomies.

Shortlinks

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by aizatto16 years ago

Shortlinks allows you to easily retrieve the shortlink for your WordPress posts, pages, categories, post_tags, attachments, custom post types, and cus …

WP-Cat2Calendar

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by Big Boss16 years ago

WP-Cat2Calendar is a plugin which can organize posts into a calendar by category(/ies).

Categories Page

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by Mervin Praison1 year ago

Displays a table listing of all Categories registered on your website. Shortcode.

Simple Related Posts Widget

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by StancuFlorin14 years ago

A simple wordpress plugin that displays articles from the same category.

Nofollow Home Internal Links

Up in the last 7 days:360#29,275

by igoseonet15 years ago

Home page internal links always take too much pagerank away from homepage.If you want to increase Google PageRank for your website Home page,try using …

Opal Product Collection for WooCommerce

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by wpopal11 months ago

Opal Product Collection for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress, an innovative tool designed to streamline content organization and product management.

Edit Category Slug (Multisite)

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by Sergey Biryukov15 years ago

Allows to specify or edit a category slug in WordPress Multisite.

Mt8 Big Category CheckList

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by Kazuto Takeshita11 years ago

Big Category Check List On Post Pages.

Parentless Categories

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by Scott Reilly1 year ago

Provides a template tag like the_category() to list categories assigned to a post except those that have a child category also assigned to the post.

Members Category

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by Sabaoh14 years ago

Members Category is an add-in for WP-Members™ plugin that restricts specified categories to registered users.

Display Category Posts Via Shortcode Lite

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by vk01111 years ago

Displays posts with their featured images from a specified category in a responsive grid using a simple shortcode. After installation simply go to Se …

Sticky Post First in Category

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by seosbg10 years ago

Sticky Post First in Category is easy to use. Just Install the plugin and sticky posts will be first in the categories. Sticky Post First in Category …

SFR Directory Category Display

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by SupportFromRichard9 months ago

Automatically displays category descriptions, images, and subcategories for Directorist, Business Directory Plugin, and GeoDirectory.

Category- and Tag-Feeds

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by laolaweb2 months ago

Get full control over the output for WordPress-generated feeds of your categories and keywords!

Require & Limit Categories, Tags, Featured Image and taxonomies

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by Puvox Software18 days ago

[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍] Force dashboard users to select chosen fields during publishing

Peer Categories

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by Scott Reilly1 year ago

List the categories that are peer (i.e. share the same category parent) to all lowest-level assigned categories for the specified post.

Taxonomy slug fixer

Up in the last 7 days:145#31,024

by fariborzasgarpour2 years ago

fix the middle slugs of parent category and child category.

TaxoSelect

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by runthings.dev9 months ago

Assign archive templates to categories, tags and other taxonomy terms.

M Similar Posts

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by Georgi Popov4 years ago

This plugin lists similar to the current post based on the number of common categories.

WP Bannerized Categories

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by apoorvasharma8 years ago

Place a custom banner and link at the top of your category and post pages. Easily update the image through your category edit page.

BH Related Post

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by ThemesVila1 year ago

Display related posts with a jCarousel-powered responsive slider. Show posts from the same category in a stylish way.

Category Based Archives

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by echoz18 years ago

Allows date based archives to be listed by category.

Colored Categories

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by mountaininja13 years ago

Use this plugin to attach a color to each of your categories, Great for creating a distinguishing look for each category on your site.

Super Advanced Posts

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by Tarun Yaduvanshi7 years ago

Add Ajax in widgets Filter Taxonomy and Terms. More easily and dynamic Post by Filter. Adds a widget that can display recent posts and other posts fro …

Category Post Count

Down in the last 7 days:545#33,121

by WordPress Türkiye11 years ago

With this plugin you can set the posts_per_page and posts_per_rss settings for individual categories.

AY Term Meta

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by Erwan Guillon11 years ago

Add some meta to your terms like tags, categories or custom taxonomies

afterRead

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by Daniel16 years ago

Provides suggestions to readers at the end of articles about what to do next, ie; read related articles, donate, read next article in category, etc.

No Categories

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no-categories18 years ago

Simply disables the usage of categories in your WordPress blog.

Categorized & Tagged Pages

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by Marine8 years ago

Quickly add Categories and Tags to Wordpress Pages.

Categorized

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by Mark Jaquith13 years ago

Unchecks the default post category when you first select a non-default category

WP Use parent template

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by kanonji15 years ago

To use parent template for child categories or pages. This plugin patches template hierarchy. This plugin is for who create or customize themes.

Category View Row Action

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by aizatto16 years ago

Category View Row Action is a simple plugin which adds a 'View' link for your Categories and Tags in the admin section so that you can quick …

Filter for Jetpack Site Stats

Down in the last 7 days:133#34,463

by colwellj3 years ago

Enables admins to filter "Top Posts & Pages" summaries by metadata.

Cat Block

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by cvmh4 years ago

Adds a block (widget or shortcode), which scrolls through the posts in a category.

Retain Author

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by David Powell14 years ago

Prevent mixing authors in your next and previous post links.

Kntnt's Any Term for Beaver Builder Page Builder

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by Thomas Barregren8 years ago

WordPress plugin that adds special purpose term to every taxonomy (including categories and tags) that makes taxonomy filters in post modules of Beave …

OlalaWeb

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by Matthieu12 years ago

Display your products' prices on your WooCommerce Category Archive pages.

Gallery-Circle

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by gabrielvperez11 years ago

Plugin to show the post of the category you choose as a gallery circles with a link to the post. As the plugin shows the post by categories will not h …

8Degree Posts List Plugin

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by 8Degree Themes8 years ago

8 Degree Posts List Lite is easy to use posts listing WordPress Plugin.

C4D Woocommerce Category

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by coffee4dev8 years ago

This simple plugin creates a category widget that allows you select the category to display

BW Posts Top

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by brainymore12 years ago

BW Posts Top is a widget to show your posts on top of website. You can use it to show latest post with many themes.

Maga Category Images

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by maga5614 years ago

Maga Category Images v1.2.1 By Ricardo Magallanes. Associates an image file (jpg or png) to a given category.

Auto Describe Taxonomies

Up in the last 7 days:9,280#36,182

by Kreezxil14 years ago

Using freebase, this plugin will auto describe tags and categories.