Require Post Category
Require users to choose a post category before updating or publishing a post.
4.9(11 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Require Post Category is a WordPress post plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 26K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 91% this week. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
4.9/511 reviews
1.0K+active installs
26K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Tired of uncategorized posts? Use this simple plugin to require users to choose a post category before updating or publishing a post. By default this only applies to normal posts. If you wish to require a category/taxonomy for a custom post type see the FAQ for filter hook usage examples.
Translators
- French (fr_FR) – Dominique V.
- Spanish (es_ES) – Andrew Kurtis – WebHostingHub
- Polish (pl_PL) – Michał Papliński
- Finnish (fi) – Sanapaino
If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can send the PO and MO files to me so that I can bundle it into the plugin. Download the latest POT file.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Easy and Effective
by Daniel Hendricks·5 years ago
Simply install the plugin and activate. Works with both classic and block editors. Nice work.
Works perfectly with no fuss
by wpguillaume·6 years ago
And now with Gutenberg support. 🙂
No settings needed, install, activate, enjoy.
Thank you!
Great!
by Sanapaino·6 years ago
A plugin as a plugin should be: simple but useful.
excellent plugin
by Groovyx9·6 years ago
I was so glad to have found this plugin a few years ago : as each post on my site is right away transformed into a newsletter according to categories, forgetting to add a category means a painful process of deleting and creating again. This plugin is just perfect to avoid such a situation… and now I can see it is updated 🙂
So 5 stars.
works with cpt!
by nsultan·6 years ago
perfect!
Download Trends
Today: 33Yesterday: 12This week: 130Period total: 5K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.1
90.3%
Other
9.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.1
- Updated for WordPress 5.5
- FIXED: Deprecated function notice listed in jQuery Migrate Helper plugin (Classic Editor)
- FIXED: Submitting post form by pressing enter in the title field would bypass checks (Classic Editor)
Contributors
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