WordPress category plugins

Organize thousands of WordPress media files in folders / categories with ease.

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

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

Add Categories and Tags to Pages.

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

Search and Filtering for Custom Posts, Categories, Tags, Taxonomies, Post Dates and Post Types

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.

What this plugin does is to reveal most removed IDs on admin pages, as it was in versions prior to 2.5.

Adds the ability to use categories in the media library.

Easily add a Post Categories to Wordpress Pages

Allows you to merge terms, move terms between taxonomies, and set term parents, individually or in bulk.

Move or remove posts in bulk from one category, tag or custom taxonomy to another.

Associate images from your media library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies.

Removes category base or parents categories or tag base from your permalinks. Compatible with WPML Plugin and WordPress Multisite.

Automatically toggle the parent categories when a sub category is selected.

Adds categories and tags functionality for your pages.

Advanced Product Search boosts your store search with instant AJAX results, live suggestions, and smart category filtering, helping customers find pro …

Installing this plugin allows you to adjust the behavior of the area below the posts screen category and custom taxonomy box.

Makes categories, tags and custom taxonomies more useful.

The List Custom Taxonomy Widget is a quick and easy way to display custom taxonomies. Simply choose the taxonomy name you want to display from an auto …

Charge extra fees in cart, based on the combination of multiple conditional rules that you configure.

A plugin that lets you select the categories that appear on the front page of your WordPress site.

This plugin can change bottom to "Admin Bar".

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

Add event category background colors to The Events Calendar events.

Dynamic tree-widgets to replace the standard archives, categories, pages and link lists. Support custom Menus too.

This plugin can remove specific taxonomy base slug from your permalinks (e.g. "/genre/fiction/" to "/fiction/").

This Widget lists the sub-categories for a given category.

Protects posts in categories by setting a unique Password for all restricted categories.

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

Add a thumbnail to your taxonomy terms.

Widget & Shortcode to list down posts filtered by Category, with Thumbnails, Custom HTML structure, Excerpt, CSS theme with API & much more

Use radio buttons or checkboxes for your categories and custom taxonomies with this incredibly powerful and easy-to-use plugin.

Define custom templates for category views.

WordPress 3.1 and up allow for reasonably simple custom taxonomy, this plugin makes it even simpler, removing the need for you to write any code.

Dynamic menus: List all posts from a category in your menu. Also works for tags, custom taxonomies as well as pages and custom post types.

Allows manual selection of a 'main' category for each post for nicer permalinks and better SEO.

Switch the taxonomy for all terms or only child terms of a specified parent term.

Category Import Reloaded is a wordpress plug-in which allows user to bulk create categories and taxonomies with a custom input format.

Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin maintains the hierarchical order of categories list in the Category tab under your WordPress Admin Post Editor …

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

Allows you to automatically add hierarchic categories in WordPress Navigation Menus.

This plugin lets you select a specific template for a category, just like pages

Post Category Image With Grid and Slider allow users to upload category image and display in grid and slider via shortcode or Gutenberg block.

A small and simple plugin to adjust the default texts of archive titles in WordPress

A WordPress plugin to easily attach an icon to a category, tag or any other taxonomy term.

A plugin to add widget for listing Categories and Taxonomies. Extending Default WordPress Category Widget.

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

Replace the checkboxes with radio buttons or a select drop-down in the built-in Categories metabox and Gutenberg sidebar panel.

A simple and flexible widget for WordPress which will show recent posts from selected category allowing increased customization to display recent post …

Place a custom banner and link at the top of your product category pages. Easily update the image through your product category edit page.

Require users to choose a post category before updating or publishing a post.

Custom templates is what you are working on if you are here to read about this plug-in. One challenge often faced by the Wordpress developers is to im …

Shortcode Plugin to display an archive by category, tag or custom query. Customizable via HTML templates.

[extra_archives], [extra_taxonomies], [bloginfo show="name"], [date format="l jS \of F Y"], [date_i18n], [time]

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

Customizes text and menu labels for any registered taxonomy using a simple interface.

A simple and easy way to reorder your custom post types within terms in WordPress.

Provides options to control an archive page title.