Simply disables the usage of categories in your WordPress blog.
As of April 2026, No Categories is a WordPress category plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 5.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 17 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Pages with category and tag.
Do you keep a simple blog, where you don’t define specific categories for your posts but simply let them all be uncategorized and use tags instead? Do you, like me, feel that all the categorizing stuff comes in the way of your content and your blog? Do you feel that keeping only one category seems superflous, but WordPress just forces you to? Then this plugin might be for you!
This plugin is mostly cosmetic, as it doesn’t change or actually remove any categories, but hides any options to change them, so all posts are in fact put in the default category (usually “Uncategorized”). This currently includes the category section on the edit pages and the “Manage categories” section on the admin pages. Published posts will not mention categories, and the Categ…
| WordPress | 2.3+ requiredTested up to 2.5.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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