Best WordPress category plugins for WordPress
The most popular WordPress category plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Front-end Category Management leads with 20+ active installs, ahead of Category Checkbox List Tree (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “wordpress category” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 WordPress category plugins
- 1.
Front-end Category ManagementThe most installed WordPress category plugin, with 20+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
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Category Checkbox List Tree10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
All 2 plugins tagged “wordpress category”
Front-end Category Management
#26,960by Manish Kumar Agarwal12 years ago
A handy and simple plugin for creating/editing categories/terms and sub-categories on the WordPress user end.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Checkbox List Tree
Down in the last 7 days:966#29,034by Thien Do11 years ago
This plugin supports indenting the order of categories.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day