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categories plugins
365 plugins in the directory carry the categories tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
365
plugins
405,830+
combined reach
45
released in 90 days
75%
quiet 18 months+
4
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug 2026 | The Taxonomy Sort | 60+ | released after a long silence |
| 22 Aug 2026 | WP Required Taxonomies – Categories and Tags Mandatory | 1,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 22 Aug 2026 | Require Categories when Creating Products – WooCommerce | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 19 Aug 2026 | No Category Parents | 6,000+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| List category posts 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. | 80,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 months ago |
| Media Library Assistant Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit. | 70,000+ | 4.8★ | 20 days ago |
| Category Posts Block Adds a block that shows the most recent posts from a single category. | 40,000+ | 4.5★ | 16 days ago |
| Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms Tags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with TaxoPress. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tags and more. | 40,000+ | 4.6★ | 4 days ago |
| FV Top Level Categories This is a fix of Top Level Categories plugin for Wordpress 3.1. and above. | 20,000+ | 4.4★ | 12 months ago |
| Post Tags and Categories for Pages Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages. | 20,000+ | 4.8★ | 8 months ago |
| Media Library Categories Adds the ability to use categories in the media library. | 20,000+ | 4.2★ | 16 days ago |
| Essential Widgets Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option | 10,000+ | 3.5★ | 3 months ago |
| Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce. This plugins requires WooCommerce to be installed and activated | 10,000+ | 4.1★ | 4 months ago |
| Visual Term Description Editor Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Allow HTML in Category Descriptions This plugin allows you to use unfiltered HTML in your category descriptions by disabling selected WordPress filters. | 8,000+ | 5.0★ | 6 months ago |
| Flexible Posts Widget An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like! | 7,000+ | 4.6★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| No Category Parents Removes the mandatory 'Category Base' and every parent category from your category permalinks. | 6,000+ | 5.0★ | 6 days ago |
| Category Checklist Tree Preserves the category hierarchy on the post editing screen | 5,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| List categories Simple plugin to display categories in any post or page with a shortcode. | 5,000+ | 4.5★ | 16 months ago |
| Collapsing Categories Adds a widget which uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of posts for each category. | 4,000+ | 4.1★ | 7 months ago |
| Recent Posts by Category Widget Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from. | 4,000+ | 4.7★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Category Sticky Post Mark a post to be placed at the top of a specified category archive. It's sticky posts specifically for categories. | 3,000+ | 4.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Display Categories Widget Display Categories Widget will display Child categories on your sidebar. Can be placed on widget in sidebar. | 3,000+ | 4.8★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| SEO Auto Linker SEO Auto Linker assists in creating cornerstone SEO content. This is not a full replacement for SEO plugins. | 3,000+ | 4.3★ | 21 months ago · quiet |
| WP Admin Category Search This plugin adds search functionality to category-like taxonomies and dropdowns like author on add / edit post / page admin pages. | 2,000+ | 4.6★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Colorful Categories New Categories widget in the awesome style! Bring colours to your categories widget - make every category in its colour. | 2,000+ | 4.7★ | 11 months ago |
| Enhanced Category Pages Create custom enhanced pages for categories and any taxonomy term and manage them as a custom post. | 2,000+ | 4.4★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Top Level 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) | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Post Category Filter (WP Admin) Quickly search and filter categories and taxonomies inside the WordPress admin. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 20 days ago |
| Attachment Taxonomies This plugin adds categories and tags to the WordPress media library - lightweight and developer-friendly. | 1,000+ | 4.6★ | 22 days ago |
| Automatik Blog A plugin for integration with Automatik Blog, allowing automated publishing of SEO-optimized articles via REST API. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 18 months ago · quiet |
| Bulk Term Generator – Import multiple tags, categories, and taxonomies easily Streamline taxonomy management in WordPress with Bulk Term Generator, your free tool for easy, bulk term importing. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Categorized Tag Cloud A cloud with the most used tags in a sidebar widget, filtered by post category. | 1,000+ | 3.8★ | 24 days ago |
| Bulk Post Category Creator This easy-to-use plugin allows to create post categories in bulk and assign those categories to posts at the same time. | 1,000+ | 3.9★ | 23 months ago · quiet |
| Custom Recent Posts Widget A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags | 1,000+ | 4.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| JS Categories List Widget A simple Gutenberg block and JS widget (can be called from posts) for displaying categories in a list with some effects. | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 5 months ago |
| WP Required Taxonomies – Categories and Tags Mandatory Force users to select a taxonomy term when publishing posts. For example, make category or tags required | 1,000+ | 4.1★ | 15 days ago |
| List Products By Category Widget for WooCommerce Display a list of all the products in a WooCommerce product category with this handy widget. | 900+ | 5.0★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Blog-in-Blog This plugin shows posts from a category on any page you like using shortcodes. Create multiple blogs within a blog using a category. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 7 months ago |
| Bulk Add Terms A lightweight plugin to add thousands of taxonomy terms in one go. | 800+ | 3.9★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| JSM Show Term Metadata Show term metadata in a metabox when editing terms - a great tool for debugging issues with term metadata. | 800+ | — | 15 days ago |
| WP Media Categories Add categories to media & attachments. | 800+ | 4.6★ | 5 months ago |
| Advanced Categories Widget A highly customizable categories widget for WordPress with thumbnails and descriptions. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Map Categories to Pages Displays categories box on "Edit Page" page. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| Advanced Category Excluder The No.1 content separator, content manager, content excluder, sidebar widget manager plugin to enable CMS like functionality. | 600+ | 3.3★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Category Featured Images Set a featured image for all the posts of a category. | 600+ | 4.5★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| GUI for List Category Posts This plugin adds a graphical shortcode creator for the List Category Posts plugin, accessible via the "LCP" button in WordPress editor. | 600+ | 3.0★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Most Popular Categories Display your most popular categories in a widget | 600+ | — | 15 years ago · quiet |
| Category Featured Images Extended Set images for categories and tags, especially for fallback post thumbnails or featured images. | 400+ | 4.4★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Home Categories Filters the categories of posts shown on your front page. | 400+ | 4.5★ | 13 years ago · quiet |
| Post Tiles Post Tiles gives the ability to display posts as tiles. The tiles are color coded by category. The appearance is similar to windows 8 (Windows Metro). | 400+ | 4.5★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Taxonomy Checklist Tree Plugin sets Category/Taxonomy checklist hierarchical tree-view by default. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| WP Export Categories & Taxonomies Export Categories, Tags and Taxonomies | 400+ | 4.8★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| WP REST API – Pure Taxonomies This plugin include all available taxonomy attributes into the WordPress REST API (v2) without additional API requests. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
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