List category posts vs Visual Term Description Editor (2026)
Detailed side-by-side comparison of two WordPress plugins, based on real-time data from WordPress.org.
Visual Term Description Editor
20K+ active installs
Free
Quick Verdict
As of April 2026, Visual Term Description Editor has a higher user rating (5/5 from 21 reviews) while List category posts leads in active installations (80K+ vs 20K+). Both are free WordPress plugins. List category posts has accumulated 4.4M+ total downloads while Visual Term Description Editor has 97K+.
Detailed Comparison
| Metric | List category posts | Visual Term Description Editor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.7/5 | ► | 5/5 |
| Total Reviews | 254 | ◄ | 21 |
| Active Installs | 80K+ | ◄ | 20K+ |
| Total Downloads | 4.4M+ | ◄ | 97K+ |
| Support Resolution | 0% | N/A | |
| Last Updated | 2 weeks ago | ◄ | 1 year ago |
| First Released | 2008 | 2013 | |
| Age | 18 years | 13 years | |
| WP Requires | 3.3+ | 3.3+ | |
| PHP Requires | 5.6+ | 5.4+ | |
| Business Model | Free | Free | |
| Latest Version | 0.95.0 | 1.8.1 |
Rating Breakdown
List category posts
Visual Term Description Editor
Download Trends
Over the past 30 days, List category posts averaged approximately 1,604 daily downloads while Visual Term Description Editor averaged 17.
Recent Reviews
List category posts Reviews
Fantastic
This is an absolutely amazing plugin because it can be used in so many different ways from eg creating a Navigation page that lists pages categorized with “Navigation”, to creating “Related pages” etc
wonderful plugin
I used to do this kind of things with manual and hacky changes to wordpress themes, this created a lot of problem to upgrade themes. With this plugin you can change the post lists in a lot of ways. It
Works great with the free Beaver Builder!
Works great if you want to show a post preview on a page with the free Version Beaver Builder! This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Brisch.
Visual Term Description Editor Reviews
still very useful
I Have still pages with the old themes and this is really useful for adding text on the category pages. This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Daniel.
Great plugin – works with WP 6.3
Great plugin to allow you to make your term descriptions more visually appealing. It works just fine with WP 6.3 in lieu of implementing the block editor for term descriptions.
Great plugin!
Very simple and useful
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