Best parent plugins for WordPress
The most popular parent plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Parent Category Toggler leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Custom Post Type Parents (900+) and Add Hierarchy (parent) to post (200+). All 21 plugins tagged “Parent” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 parent plugins
- 1.
Parent Category TogglerThe most installed parent plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 15 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 2.
Custom Post Type Parents900+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 6 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
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.
- 4.
Filter Pages by parent in admin100+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 6 reviews, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 5.
Category Parent Children Selector100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 6.
Remove Parents90+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 19 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.3.
- 7.
Taxonomy Tree Toggler90+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 8.
JSM Inherit Parent Featured Image70+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 1 week ago.
- 9.
Ambrosite Unlink Parent Pages60+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 10.
Redirect 404 to parent60+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 5 months ago.
All 21 plugins tagged “Parent”
Parent Category Toggler
#1,968by Ben Lobaugh (blobaugh)9 years ago
Automatically toggle the parent categories when a sub category is selected.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(15)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Custom Post Type Parents
Down in the last 7 days:6#7,199by Mickey Kay8 months ago
Set a "parent page" for custom post types that is indicated in menus, lists of pages, and the Simple Section Navigation widget.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Add Hierarchy (parent) to post
Down in the last 7 days:13#12,344by ttodua2 years ago
PLUGIN IS DISCONTINUED!
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Filter Pages by parent in admin
Up in the last 7 days:22#13,191by James Irving-Swift14 years ago
Filter pages in the wp-admin by their parent pages
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Parent Children Selector
Down in the last 7 days:43#16,604by WenZe12 years ago
Helps you in selecting parent-children categories.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Remove Parents
Down in the last 7 days:617#16,907by alekc19 years ago
Remove Parents is a tiny plugin which remove "category" and parent categories from permalink.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Taxonomy Tree Toggler
Down in the last 7 days:63#17,088by 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
JSM Inherit Parent Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:85#18,859by JS Morisset10 days ago
Inherit the featured image from the Post, Page, or Custom Post Type parent, grand-parent, great-grand-parent, etc.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Ambrosite Unlink Parent Pages
Down in the last 7 days:140#19,576by ambrosite14 years ago
Unlinks parent pages in page menus and lists. Useful for creating dropdown menus with top-level placeholders. Affects the output of wp_list_pages and …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Redirect 404 to parent
Down in the last 7 days:33#19,708by Moove Agency5 months ago
This plugin helps you redirect any 404 request to the parent URL.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Change Media Parent
Down in the last 7 days:239#21,583by pantsonhead11 years ago
Allows editors to change the parent post of an attachment after it has been set.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Page Hierarchy Widget
#32,156by BeardedGinger12 years ago
Displays the most logical arrangement of Parent, Child, & Grandchild pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Parent Page Link
Up in the last 7 days:4,942#43,355by PowieT9 years ago
This widget plugin will display a backlink to the parent page at the end of subpages
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Change Comment Parent
Up in the last 7 days:1,032#45,172by Dmitriy Amirov11 years ago
Simple plug-in for editing the parent comments to any user comments. Use it to edit the threaded structure comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ambrosite Unlink Parent Categories
Down in the last 7 days:1,554#46,324by ambrosite15 years ago
Unlinks parent categories/taxonomies in category menus and lists. Useful for creating dropdown menus with top-level placeholders.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Update Permalink/Slug Previews in Admin
Up in the last 7 days:7,241#53,086by thomasbachem2 years ago
Automatically reloads permalink/slug previews in admin edit view when changing a page's parent or the categories of a post.
- 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