WordPress categories plugins

This plugin removes the mandatory 'Category Base' from your category permalinks. It's compatible with WPML.

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.

Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.

Remove Category URL strips the /category/ base from your category URLs, turning something like /category/my-category/ into simply /my-category/.

Tags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with TaxoPress. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tags and more.

Ultimate Category Excluder allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and search results.

Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.

Adds the ability to use categories in the media library.

This is a fix of Top Level Categories plugin for Wordpress 3.1. and above.

Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages.

Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor.

Add posts, pages, categories and custom post types and taxonomy terms in bulk! Managing vast amounts of content made a walk in the park!

Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce. This plugins requires WooCommerce to be installed and activated

Adds categories and tags functionality for your pages.

Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option

An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!

This plugin allows you to use unfiltered HTML in your category descriptions by disabling selected WordPress filters.

Note to all used who tried the version 2.0 and 2.0.1 there were was bugs in the logic which upgrades the previous version of the Simply Exclude config …

Simple plugin to display categories in any post or page with a shortcode.

This plugin will completely remove the mandatory 'Category Base' and all the parents from your category permalinks (e.g.

Preserves the category hierarchy on the post editing screen

Multi-column Tag Map will display tags, pages, posts, categories, custom post types, authors and taxonomies in a visually logical way similiar to that …

Adds a widget which uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of posts for each category.

Restrict the categories that users can view, add, and edit in the admin panel.

Display Categories Widget will display Child categories on your sidebar. Can be placed on widget in sidebar.

SEO Auto Linker assists in creating cornerstone SEO content. This is not a full replacement for SEO plugins.

Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.

Mark a post to be placed at the top of a specified category archive. It's sticky posts specifically for categories.

WooCommerce Product Categories Selection Widget

Real Friendly integration of Google Maps instances into your blogs. The plugin allows to display multiple maps on your pages.

With Social Articles you can create and manage posts from your BuddyPress profile.

Create custom enhanced pages for categories and any taxonomy term and manage them as a custom post.

Streamline taxonomy management in WordPress with Bulk Term Generator, your free tool for easy, bulk term importing.

New Categories widget in the awesome style! Bring colours to your categories widget - make every category in its colour.

This plugin adds search functionality to category-like taxonomies and dropdowns like author on add / edit post / page admin pages.

A simple plugin that allows the user to assign post features to pages, including categories, tags, and excerpts.

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)

Quickly search and filter categories and taxonomies inside the WordPress admin.

A simple Gutenberg block and JS widget (can be called from posts) for displaying categories in a list with some effects.

Changes the classic Admin-Category-View to an collapsed Tree-View with +/- buttons. (for all Post-Types, also…

This plugin adds categories and tags to the WordPress media library - lightweight and developer-friendly.

A cloud with the most used tags in a sidebar widget, filtered by post category.

A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags

Force users to select a taxonomy term when publishing posts. For example, make category or tags required

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This easy-to-use plugin allows to create post categories in bulk and assign those categories to posts at the same time.

Display a list of all the products in a WooCommerce product category with this handy widget.

Useful shortcodes to display a post or page content or a list of posts. 100.000 downloads!

A plugin for integration with Automatik Blog, allowing automated publishing of SEO-optimized articles via REST API.

This plugin shows posts from a category on any page you like using shortcodes. Create multiple blogs within a blog using a category.

This plugin lets you list posts by category, author, tags, and more, using a shortcode on posts, pages, or widgets with plenty of customization option …

Show term metadata in a metabox when editing terms - a great tool for debugging issues with term metadata.

A highly customizable categories widget for WordPress with thumbnails and descriptions.

Add categories to media & attachments.

Displays categories box on "Edit Page" page.

The No.1 content separator, content manager, content excluder, sidebar widget manager plugin to enable CMS like functionality.

This plugin modifies the categories block to add new features such as collapse and expand categories and subcategories, order, etc.

Set a featured image for all the posts of a category.

Two widgets are provided, for displaying a vastly condensed

This widget allows to add/update icons for category or icon for custom taxonomy. It lists Categories in horizontal menu pattern.