Alternatives to Category Search
Category Search adds the option to display category names in search results. Useful when you have a lot of categories.
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Rating: 0.0/5 (0 reviews)
Downloads: 7,919
Active installs: 30
Maintenance score: 20/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 2.0
Tested up to: 4.2.39
Requires PHP: f
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No Category Base (WPML)(34)•Updated 66d ago
This plugin removes the mandatory 'Category Base' from your category permalinks. It's compatible with WPML.
100,000 installs1,032,018 downloads75/100 • Actively maintained
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms(193)•Updated 86d ago
Tags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with TaxoPress. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tags and more.
50,000 installs5,932,799 downloads78/100 • Actively maintained
Ultimate Category Excluder(77)•Updated 230d ago
Ultimate Category Excluder allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and search results.
50,000 installs556,704 downloads44/100 • Stale
Remove Category URL – Remove 'category' base from category permalinks(58)•Updated 82d ago
Remove Category URL strips the /category/ base from your category URLs, turning something like /category/my-category/ into simply /my-category/.
50,000 installs522,395 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
Category Posts Widget(79)•Updated 62d ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
40,000 installs1,794,872 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
Media Library Categories(52)•Updated 120d ago
Adds the ability to use categories in the media library.
20,000 installs566,946 downloads46/100 • Maintained
10,000 installs60,853 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
No category parents(3)•Updated 3183d ago
This plugin will completely remove the mandatory 'Category Base' and all the parents from your category permalinks (e.g.
6,000 installs74,108 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Posts by Category Widget(12)•Updated 3182d ago
Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.
4,000 installs33,916 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Ninja Pages(12)•Updated 3182d ago
A simple plugin that allows the user to assign post features to pages, including categories, tags, and excerpts.
2,000 installs54,089 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Post Category Filter (WP Admin)(25)•Updated 87d ago
Quickly search and filter categories and taxonomies inside the WordPress admin.
1,000 installs44,747 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
Custom Recent Posts Widget(9)•Updated 3182d ago
A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags
1,000 installs51,754 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Page2cat: Category, Pages & Posts Shortcodes(3)•Updated 4833d ago
Useful shortcodes to display a post or page content or a list of posts. 100.000 downloads!
1,000 installs119,832 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advanced Categories Widget(8)•Updated 3657d ago
A highly customizable categories widget for WordPress with thumbnails and descriptions.
800 installs21,839 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
800 installs20,781 downloads42/100 • Maintained
Collapsing Categories List(11)•Updated 2847d ago
This plugin modifies the categories block to add new features such as collapse and expand categories and subcategories, order, etc.
700 installs26,667 downloads14/100 • Possibly abandoned
Category and Subcategory List Widget(4)•Updated 257d ago
This widget allows to add/update icons for category or icon for custom taxonomy. It lists Categories in horizontal menu pattern.
700 installs38,651 downloads40/100 • Stale
Multi-Column Taxonomy List(15)•Updated 4583d ago
List your categories, tags, or custom taxonomies into multiple, customizable, columns.
500 installs21,328 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Related Posts via Categories(6)•Updated 4800d ago
This Plugin will display the related posts list via categories.
500 installs68,056 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Category Custom Fields(8)•Updated 5311d ago
The plug in will let add unlimited custom fields to any cateogry/taxonomy
400 installs16,975 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned