9 Best WordPress Category Plugins
Organize your WordPress content effectively with category management plugins. Enhance navigation, improve content structure, and create better user experiences.
FileBird – WordPress Media Library Folders & File Manager
Active Installations: 200,000+
1,061 ratings
Updated: 3/19/2025
Organize thousands of WordPress media files in folders / categories with ease.
WordPress Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger
Active Installations: 60,000+
175 ratings
Updated: 3/25/2025
Tags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with TaxoPress. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tags and more.
Reveal IDs
Active Installations: 50,000+
61 ratings
Updated: 11/6/2023
What this plugin does is to reveal most removed IDs on admin pages, as it was in versions prior to 2.5.
Category Posts Widget
Active Installations: 50,000+
79 ratings
Updated: 3/10/2025
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
Search & Filter
Active Installations: 50,000+
169 ratings
Updated: 11/20/2024
Search and Filtering for Custom Posts, Categories, Tags, Taxonomies, Post Dates and Post Types
The Events Calendar: Category Colors
Active Installations: 10,000+
61 ratings
Updated: 2/6/2025
Add event category background colors to The Events Calendar events.
Term Management Tools
Active Installations: 10,000+
75 ratings
Updated: 12/10/2020
Allows you to merge terms, move terms between taxonomies, and set term parents, individually or in bulk. WPML is supported when changing taxonomies.
Remove Category URL
Active Installations: 50,000+
57 ratings
Updated: 1/27/2020
This plugin removes '/category' from your category permalinks. (e.g. /category/my-category/ to /my-category/)
Media Library Categories
Active Installations: 20,000+
52 ratings
Updated: 1/11/2025
Adds the ability to use categories in the media library.
How We Rank Plugins
To determine the Best WordPress Category Plugins we used a comprehensive scoring system that considers multiple factors. We analyze active installations, download counts, user ratings, and rating consistency on a weekly basis. To ensure quality, we only include plugins with a substantial number of reviews. This methodology helps us identify plugins that are not only popular but also consistently reliable and well-maintained.
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