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Front-end Category Management

A handy and simple plugin for creating/editing categories/terms and sub-categories on the WordPress user end.

By Manish Kumar Agarwal·Frontend·Free
5(1 reviews)
·20 active installs·Updated 11 years ago
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As of April 2026, Front-end Category Management is a WordPress Frontend plugin with 20 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Prevent Browser Caching.

5/51 reviews
20active installs
3.0K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

This plugin will allow you to create/edit/delete categories/terms from user end.

How to use

In this plugin we defined a shortcode:

  1. [fecm-front-end-subcat] add this shortcode in a page in which you want to show category management form.

UI part not yet done well.

Future features

  1. All type of taxonomy management.
  2. Parent-child relation management during edit.

Features

  1. List all categories/terms at user end.
  2. Category/term Add/Edit/Delete functionality.
  3. Parent child relation.
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

51 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress3.5+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.1

  • Increase user experience.
  • Added validation for user capability ‘administrator’ check before add/edit/edit any category/term.
  • Added error message.
  • Fixed PHP NOTICES and WARNINGS
  • Tested with WordPress 4.0
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Manish Kumar AgarwalManish Kumar AgarwalMindfire SolutionsMindfire Solutions
Plugin Info
Version
1.1
Last Updated
Dec 22, 2014
WP Requires
3.5+
Tested Up To
4.1.42
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
20
Downloads
3.0K+
Added
Apr 21, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

frontendtaxonomycategoriessub-categorieswordpress category

Developer

M
Manish Kumar Agarwal
3 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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