Is Author Categories free?

Yes, Author Categories is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Author Categories?

Author Categories has 10 active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Author Categories alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Author Categories include Admin Menu Editor, Max Mega Menu, Menu Icons by ThemeIsle. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Author Categories work with the latest WordPress?

Author Categories has been tested up to WordPress 2.7.1. It requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP false+.

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Author Categories

Name: Author Categories
Author: Makis

A wrapper of the default 'wp_list_categories' to present an author's menu, when in the author pages.

By Makis·Menu·Free

·10 active installs·Updated 16 years ago

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As of April 2026, Author Categories is a WordPress menu plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Admin Menu Editor.

0/5Rating

10active installs

4.4K+total downloads

17 yearssince 2009

Overview

Numerous people are using WordPress for blogging and in many cases there are more than one authors on a website. It’s uncomfortably surprising that WordPress doesn’t support out of the box a category menu for each author separately.

I was looking for this feature online for my personal need but couldn’t find it on any plugin. To be exact I was using a modified version of another similar plugin but that was until version 2.3 where the database structure changed for WordPress and it simply stopped working.

As I saw it, it wasn’t worth fixing old, deprecated (and highly cluttered) code, and there weren’t any other solutions out there, so I decided to create a new plugin. Thankfully the new database and API made it as easy as I had hoped for.

I ended up with this…

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