Browse and compare 334 categories plugins. Data updated daily from official WordPress.org sources.
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Very customizable plugin to list posts by category (or tag, author and more) in a post, page or widget. Uses the [catlist] shortcode to select posts.
Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.
Tags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with TaxoPress. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tags and more.
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor.
Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages.
This is a fix of Top Level Categories plugin for Wordpress 3.1. and above.
Adds the ability to use categories in the media library.
Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce. This plugins requires WooCommerce to be installed and activated
Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option
This plugin allows you to use unfiltered HTML in your category descriptions by disabling selected WordPress filters.
An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!
This plugin will completely remove the mandatory 'Category Base' and all the parents from your category permalinks (e.g.
Simple plugin to display categories in any post or page with a shortcode.
Preserves the category hierarchy on the post editing screen
Display Categories Widget will display Child categories on your sidebar. Can be placed on widget in sidebar.
Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.
SEO Auto Linker assists in creating cornerstone SEO content. This is not a full replacement for SEO plugins.
Adds a widget which uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of posts for each category.
Mark a post to be placed at the top of a specified category archive. It's sticky posts specifically for categories.
This plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page (e.g. example.com/dogs instead of example.com/category/dogs)
Streamline taxonomy management in WordPress with Bulk Term Generator, your free tool for easy, bulk term importing.
New Categories widget in the awesome style! Bring colours to your categories widget - make every category in its colour.
This plugin adds search functionality to category-like taxonomies and dropdowns like author on add / edit post / page admin pages.
Create custom enhanced pages for categories and any taxonomy term and manage them as a custom post.
A plugin for integration with Automatik Blog, allowing automated publishing of SEO-optimized articles via REST API.
Display a list of all the products in a WooCommerce product category with this handy widget.
Quickly search and filter categories and taxonomies inside the WordPress admin.
A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags
A simple Gutenberg block and JS widget (can be called from posts) for displaying categories in a list with some effects.
This plugin adds categories and tags to the WordPress media library - lightweight and developer-friendly.
Force users to select a taxonomy term when publishing posts. For example, make category or tags required
This easy-to-use plugin allows to create post categories in bulk and assign those categories to posts at the same time.
A cloud with the most used tags in a sidebar widget, filtered by post category.
This plugin shows posts from a category on any page you like using shortcodes. Create multiple blogs within a blog using a category.
Displays categories box on "Edit Page" page.