Best hierarchy plugins for WordPress
The most popular hierarchy plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Sidebar Menu leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Admin Menu Tree Page View (10K+) and Category Checklist Tree (5K+). All 40 plugins tagged “hierarchy” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 hierarchy plugins
- 1.
Advanced Sidebar MenuThe most installed hierarchy plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 37 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Admin Menu Tree Page View10K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 48 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.Category Checklist Tree
5K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 23 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 4.Categories in Hierarchical Order
2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 14 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 5.
Preserve Taxonomy Hierarchy700+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 6.Better Section Navigation
600+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.
F4 Post Tree600+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 8.Collapsible Categories in the Dashboard
600+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 9.Taxonomy Checklist Tree
400+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 10.
Add Hierarchy (parent) to post200+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 6 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
All 40 plugins tagged “hierarchy”

Advanced Sidebar Menu
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,661by Mat Lipe2 months ago
Fully automatic sidebar menus.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(37)
- Downloads
- 80/day

Admin Menu Tree Page View
Up in the last 7 days:4#1,751by Pär Thernström1 month ago
Get a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Search, add, edit, view, re-order – all is just one click away!
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(48)
- Downloads
- 85/day
Category Checklist Tree
Up in the last 7 days:4#3,106by scribu9 years ago
Preserves the category hierarchy on the post editing screen
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(23)
- Downloads
- 149/day
Categories in Hierarchical Order
Up in the last 7 days:6#4,765by Amit Sonkhiya5 years ago
Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin maintains the hierarchical order of categories list in the Category tab under your WordPress Admin Post Editor …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(14)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Preserve Taxonomy Hierarchy
Down in the last 7 days:27#7,717by Amin Nazemi1 year ago
Preserve hierarchy in posts category and navigation menu editor lists.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Better Section Navigation
Down in the last 7 days:59#8,380by cornershop11 months ago
Creates a new widget for listing section-based navigation -- essential for contextual navigation. Also implements a template function and a shortcode.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 9/day

F4 Post Tree
Down in the last 7 days:25#8,479by FAKTOR VIER26 days ago
This plugin adds a neat and easy to use sidebar tree view to your posts and pages backend.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 18/day
Collapsible Categories in the Dashboard
Down in the last 7 days:25#8,523by newvibe7 years ago
In the Dashboard, collapses sub categories into hidden submenus that can be expanded and collapsed. Keeps selected categories visible.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Taxonomy Checklist Tree
Down in the last 7 days:63#9,807by webvitalii6 years ago
Plugin sets Category/Taxonomy checklist hierarchical tree-view by default.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day

Add Hierarchy (parent) to post
Down in the last 7 days:88#12,367by ttodua2 years ago
PLUGIN IS DISCONTINUED!
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Subpage Listing
Down in the last 7 days:20#13,030by Mark Jaquith14 years ago
Allows you to display a list of the child pages of the currently viewed page.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Which Template Am I
Down in the last 7 days:43#13,427by neilgee5 years ago
This plugin will display the name of the WordPress Template in use for the current page at in the footer. It only shows for logged in administrators.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hierarchy
Down in the last 7 days:26#15,814by Jon Christopher4 years ago
Move your Pages/Posts/Custom Post Type admin links from the sidebar to a Content menu that nests everything where it should be
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Template Hierarchy
Up in the last 7 days:2#16,459by 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

WD Quick Pages
Up in the last 7 days:305#23,178by WolfDevs11 months ago
Quickly create multiple WordPress pages with hierarchical structure support. Perfect for rapid site development.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Easy Hierarchy
Up in the last 7 days:235#23,201by Marco Milesi1 month ago
Your whole site, mapped. A clear view of complex WordPress sites: structure, status and quick actions for pages and custom post types.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day
User Hierarchy
Down in the last 7 days:15#26,850by Jesper van Engelen13 years ago
Control user management on a per-role basis. Allow users of a certain role to only add, edit or delete users from specific other roles.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Dropdown Hierarchical Category UI
Down in the last 7 days:118#27,036by Kharis Sulistiyono13 years ago
It makes the categories or taxonomies list in a better UI which enables show/hide toggle of child categories. Supports any custom post types.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Interactive Organizational Chart
#28,603by mukundansiv1 year ago
A complete WordPress plugin for managing and displaying interactive organizational charts with admin and editor data upload and user-friendly viewing.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
E20 Page Tree
Down in the last 7 days:178#30,592by Gaelan Lloyd3 months ago
Visualize your site's page hierarchy in a powerful, interactive tree view, and export it to spreadsheets in seconds.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Use parent template
#33,866by 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.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

BP Group Hierarchy Propagate
Up in the last 7 days:6,471#38,746by Christian Wach10 years ago
Enables propagation of Activity Items through a hierarchy of BuddyPress Groups established by the BP Group Hierarchy plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Show Theme File
#44,475by Dan LaManna14 years ago
This is a simple plugin that uses wordpress' hierarchy to determine what theme file the current page used to render it!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Vitt Attribute Hierarchy for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:921#46,951by thevittfile2 years ago
This plugin works simulating a hierarchy for attributes and subattributes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BP Group Categories/Types
Down in the last 7 days:7,950#47,005by firetag16 years ago
!!alpha-release!! Allows you to categorize your groups in buddypress. (ex. Systems->Xbox 360->Games->Halo 3->Legendary Map Pack)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Hierarchy Menu
Down in the last 7 days:11,335#48,090by ijmccallum11 years ago
Adds a widget that will display a nested list of any post type based on it's hierarchy.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

CatBranchNest
#52,613by janiko24 days ago
A configurable hierarchical category widget with depth, counts, descendant counts, sorting and exclusions.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Org. Departments
Up in the last 7 days:2,775#55,946by wpgear1 year ago
Hierarchical Structure of Departments. For each User, you can set a binding to several Departments.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
oakenbit Term Tree Creator
Up in the last 7 days:6,295#61,026by oakenbit25 days ago
Paste an indented outline and create a whole category tree at once, or a list of tags. Preview first, undo with one click.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Keep Category List Order
Up in the last 7 days:2,432#63,306by Jonathan FALEME8 years ago
Keep the category hierarchy order on the post editing screen
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Outline Page Creator
Up in the last 7 days:8,362#63,570by oakenbit28 days ago
Paste an indented outline and create a whole page tree at once: parents, children and order. Preview first, undo with one click.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

53mp
Down in the last 7 days:314#65,152by a 53 minute production1 month ago
Create many WordPress pages at once from an indented outline under Pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

53mp
Up in the last 7 days:3,254#65,490by a 53 minute production1 month ago
Preserve page and category parent/child structure when adding multiple items on Appearance → Menus.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day

Hierarchy Pages Nav
#65,506by enomoto celtislab2 years ago
Document hierarchy pages like a book and provide easy navigation between pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

EasyVizi Sunburst
Down in the last 7 days:1,994#71,036by easyvizi1 month ago
Hierarchical data as a sunburst (multi-level pie) chart: a block, a shortcode and a template function. No build step, works offline.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Family Tree
Down in the last 7 days:127#71,587by wpmart18 days ago
Build family trees and organization charts with member profiles, a visual tree builder, templates, a style customizer and profile popups.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Post Hierarchy
Down in the last 7 days:3,987#73,922by Codelab75 years ago
Use page's ability to have a child page in post now. You can now make any post child post of another post.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BranchDesk
Down in the last 7 days:5,867#74,127by Claud Chan2 months ago
A modern visual hierarchical content explorer and management system for WordPress admin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Concat Parent Page Slugs
#74,158by nashiko9 years ago
Add template file loading rule for 'Pages'. When loading the template of the child page, preferentially loading the template file that conca …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day