As of April 2026, Enhanced Category Pages is a WordPress page plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 23 reviews. It has been downloaded 51K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 7% this week. Top alternative: Post Type Switcher.
4.4/523 reviews
2.0K+active installs
51K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
NEW Version 2.0.0 brings a great new feature: with some magic, if your theme displays category/term description, then it would be automatically enhanced.
Are you ready for more? You can customize the template by creating a content-ecp.php file in your theme of choice.
Enhanced Category Pages allows you to create custom category and term pages by managing them using a special custom post type.
Premium code quality ensured by Codacy static analysis: grade A.
Features
- NEW Visual Composer compatible – you can now edit the category using Visual Composer
- NEW Genesis Framework compatible
- WooCommerce compatible – product categories can be enhanced now
- Easy to use for everyone: users, designers, developers
- Automatically show enhanced category/term content
- Customize enhanced category/t…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.423 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great functionality in 2024
by Khampol·2 years ago
Great function even now in 2024 ~! Thx !
Still great, but showing its age
by willwenzel·7 years ago
This is an amazing plugin. I’d gladly pay for an updated version that didn’t break a bunch of things on the back end, like the wordpress menus and gravity forms. But I still use it.
If you can get it to work, it fixes one of wordpress’ big flaws – the ability to make your most important archives more than just a list with thumbnails.
Please, Please, Please don’t abandon it!
Thanks!
It’s an old plugin. I expected to be able to edit categories with visual editor
·7 years ago
It’s an old plugin. I expected to be able to edit categories with visual editor but it’s not possible.
A nice design of a category is more easily achieved by modifying the template or it should make easy to associate category with static pages..
Great solution for a common requirement
by neilpayne·8 years ago
The ability to add content to a category landing page has been needed on multiple sites that I’ve created with WordPress. This makes it easy to meet this need. Thanks for the plugin!
Could use some improvements but it works ;)
by AJ Clarke·8 years ago·1 reply
Overall it’s a good plugin because it does what it says it does 😉 But it’s not really coded using the WP coding standards. The code isn’t bad but could be updated to use best practices – https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/coding-standards/php/
The Visual Composer support works ok, but the plugin doesn’t load the CSS from the ‘_wpb_shortcodes_custom_css’ custom field so you can’t add backgrounds, paddings, etc to rows/columns/modules. This is an easy fix which I can assist with. Do you have an active Github repo where I can submit a pull-request?
Great work!
– AJ
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 4.5.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.3
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
0.1
- Initial release.
Contributors
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