Best root category plugins for WordPress

The most popular root category plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Root Category Recent Posts leads with 10+ active installs. All 1 plugins tagged “root category” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.

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Top 1 root category plugins

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Root Category Recent Posts
The most installed root category plugin, with 10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.

All 1 plugins tagged “root category”

Root Category Recent Posts
Up in the last 7 days:6,710#40,918
by LordPretender13 years ago
Another last posts widget which get recent posts only for the current root category.
Installs
10+
Rating
–
Downloads
0/day