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.
Theme Folders
Up in the last 7 days:1,343#36,288by theode10 years ago
A plugin to sort themes. For an easy overview about your favorite Themes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Top Level Category Widget
Up in the last 7 days:3,136#36,381by Jan Štětina14 years ago
Widget listing only top level categories.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
REAL Archive Pages List
Up in the last 7 days:3,244#36,394by martin_ziegert12 years ago
Most of themes have original one category templates as part of themes. With REAL Archive Plugin you can create as many category templates as you like …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Display Xenforo Node
Up in the last 7 days:5,984#37,202by anybuy12 years ago
Display Xenforo Node is a WordPress plugin that allows you to show nodes (Category, Forum, LinkForum, Page) from your separate xenforo forum as primar …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Limit for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:9,294#37,623by Amir JM6 years ago
Woocommerce toolkit to only allow purchase from one or more parent categories for each order.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Subzane Categorized Archive Widget
#37,916by Andreas Norman17 years ago
A widget that displays an archive for the current selected category. On non-category pages a standard archive is displayed.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Term Pages
Up in the last 7 days:4,405#37,922by Pixelwelt26 days ago
Redirects the first page of a term archive to a page of your choice.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Move Post
Up in the last 7 days:9,322#37,967by nitinmaurya1213 years ago
Move posts from one category to another.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Homie
#38,062by ryanve13 years ago
Include or exclude homepage categories.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
All Posts Default Category
Up in the last 7 days:2,703#38,268by jake.stookey11 years ago
Ensures all posts are always in the default category.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Intuitive Navigation
Down in the last 7 days:760#38,305by Denis Buka14 years ago
Creates navigation to next and previous posts based on the category or tag a visitor came from.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hikari Internal Links
Up in the last 7 days:5,290#38,307hikari-internal-links16 years ago
Hikari Internal Links provides a shortcode that dynamically generates to most Wordpress pages, like posts, comments, categories, feeds.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
category image
Down in the last 7 days:758#38,323by dhananjaysingh14 years ago
Using this plugin you can add images to categories
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Custom Recent Posts Widget Plus
Up in the last 7 days:134#38,670by javierjara11 years ago
Nice widget it is like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category and in addition show the thumbnails.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Searchy
#38,885by livecanvas11 years ago
An AJAX Search Engine allowing different criterias for sorting and filtering your posts. Use via simple shortcodes and few settings.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Post Type
Up in the last 7 days:1,557#38,938by Ranjith Siji16 years ago
Displays most recent posts from a specific post type and a drop down to select previous entries.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multisite Taxonomy Widget
Up in the last 7 days:8,804#39,075by Dennis Ploetner11 months ago
List the latest posts of a specific taxonomy from your blog-network.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tabular Price Pane
#39,108by Akshar Addons10 years ago
Woocommerce price and products accordion panel view filtered by From-To price with ajax load more option.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Shortcode Query Posts By Selected Category
#39,216by suifengtec13 years ago
Show a list of posts in a selected category,the number of posts to show is a value of a property of the short code.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
php snippet for theme designers
Up in the last 7 days:6,722#39,453by 水野史土6 years ago
PHP Snippets for Theme Designer
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
RichList Widget
Up in the last 7 days:89#39,459by Shine Sudarsanan12 years ago
Shows posts from Categories as an accordion list with click-able titles.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DynamicCategoryTagCloud
Down in the last 7 days:3,537#39,463by enomoto celtislab13 years ago
Displays the tag cloud dynamically from related articles belonging to the category of the display article
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Categories Autolink
Up in the last 7 days:5,008#39,495by runen17 years ago
Categories Autolink automatically turns category names in posts and pages in links to the corresponding categories URLs. Keeps the original words case …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
RSS Feed Podcast by Categories
Up in the last 7 days:5,911#39,870by carlsansfa6 years ago
This plugin enable you to display a specific podcast RSS feed in categories displayed using accordions using shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomy Templates
Up in the last 7 days:5,787#40,003by Jackson Whelan4 years ago
Taxonomy Templates allows user selection of a theme's available taxonomy archive templates, much like how pages can select their template.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Category Views by Webline
Up in the last 7 days:4,498#40,041by WeblineIndia1 year ago
A Simple plugin allow you to upload category image and those displayed in front end with diff. display options.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Nifty Related Posts
#40,427by Edward R. Jenkins12 years ago
A WordPress plugin that adds related posts by category to the bottom of your single post template.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Category Indexer
#40,443by brijrajs5 years ago
Allows the user to insert a index of posts and categories on page/post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Restrict By Category for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:4,748#40,513by EDGARROJAS2 years ago
Restrict access to WooCommerce product categories.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Subscriptions
Down in the last 7 days:1,042#40,578by Dan Collis-Puro15 years ago
Allow registered users to subscribe to categories giving them control over delivery times (e.g. daily or weekly digests) and format (html or text).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Show Media Widget
Down in the last 7 days:959#41,008by ole19862 years ago
Display media images or pdf documents in a widget filtered by categories
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Category Widget
Down in the last 7 days:952#41,039by craigsimps8 years ago
Showcase a specific category with ease, including setting a featured image and listing child categories.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wp Ajax Tree
#41,273by remm16 years ago
This plugin provide a widget that display a category and pages tree on your sidebar, using ajax to collapse categories.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP REST API Add Taxnomies
Down in the last 7 days:3,035#41,424by Masahiro NAKASHIMA10 years ago
This plugin adds Taxnomies to WP REST API(ver2)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Category Ranking
Up in the last 7 days:4,549#41,435by ryokurosu8 years ago
this is a better way to ranking widget with category.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Formategory
Down in the last 7 days:3,031#41,492by Christopher Finke21 days ago
Formats posts based on their category.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Drop-down-taxonomy
#41,576by Niraj Chauhan16 years ago
This plugin will help the user to add a drop-down-custom-taxonomy box with the help of small code on his desired location.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Retrospective
#41,782by Tiago Madeira14 years ago
Retrospective plugin displays last posts or posts from a specific category in a nice-looking "retrospective" way using a shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tui's Author Intro For Archive
Up in the last 7 days:5,812#41,992by stephenbaugh18 years ago
This plugin has been written to insert an Author introduction to each Archive, based on their User information, including their bio etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Smart Taxonomy
Down in the last 7 days:4,203#42,118by DualCube10 years ago
A cool new Wordpress plugin that helps you to make smart collection of posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Limited Category Lists Widget
#42,247by tomoya18 years ago
Limited Category Lists Widget is a wordPress widget, lists the limited category as shown in the name.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BW Slideshow
Up in the last 7 days:5,866#42,306by brainymore12 years ago
BW Slideshow is a widget to show posts as a nice slideshow. You can control themes, show or not desciption.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category and Tag Specific Widgets
#42,429by dynamick15 years ago
Display widgets for specific categories or tags.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Material Sidebar Posts
#42,777by jetendra pradhan9 years ago
Provides latest posts with material style design, Display the posts with image and no thumbnail style and much more.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Count of Products in One Category
Up in the last 7 days:4,778#42,868by Silvio3 years ago
This plugin provides a shortcode that displays the count of products in a product category of woocommerce.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
TwitCategory
Down in the last 7 days:1,655#43,177by Nagmay16 years ago
Based on twitpress by Tom Purnell. Adds the ability to choose which category will result in updates to your twitter account.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bibs Random Content
Down in the last 7 days:1,796#43,528by Karl-Heinz Klug17 years ago
Takes a random quote, picture or adcode from a text file and displays it anywhere in a WordPress Template
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Contextual Category Widget
#43,602by Vinnie3 months ago
Displays the name and description of the first category assigned to the current single post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Warning
#43,644by Re4DeR17 years ago
This plugin allow you warn visitors when they want to go in category.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Template Base On Category
Down in the last 7 days:4,296#43,645by Jam Viet11 years ago
Change the template for category and post in category base on your category ID
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day