10 Best Add Category to Pages Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Add Category to Pages has 20,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Add Category to Pages
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Front Page Category
Closest match4.0 (26) 5,000+ active installsA plugin that lets you select the categories that appear on the front page of your WordPress site.
Shares the category, page tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since January 30, 2024.
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4.8 (28) 50,000+ active installsAdd Categories and Tags to Pages.
Shares the category, page tags on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
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Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms
4.6 (194) 40,000+ active installsTags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with TaxoPress. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tags and more.
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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Category Posts Block
4.5 (79) 40,000+ active installsAdds a block that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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4.5 (47) 9,000+ active installsMove or remove posts in bulk from one category, tag or custom taxonomy to another.
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since January 28, 2024.
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4.4 (40) 9,000+ active installsAssociate images from your media library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies.
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since February 15, 2024.
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4.9 (76) 10,000+ active installsAllows you to merge terms, move terms between taxonomies, and set term parents, individually or in bulk.
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated December 11, 2025.
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4.7 (21) 9,000+ active installsThe 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 …
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated July 19, 2026.
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4.5 (175) 50,000+ active installsSearch and Filtering for Custom Posts, Categories, Tags, Taxonomies, Post Dates and Post Types
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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4.2 (52) 20,000+ active installsAdds the ability to use categories in the media library.
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 16 days ago.
Switching from Add Category to Pages: common questions
What is the best alternative to Add Category to Pages?
Front Page Category is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 5,000+ active installs with a 4.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Add Category to Pages alternative has the most users?
Pages with category and tag, with 50,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Add Category to Pages alternative is rated highest?
Term Management Tools, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 76 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Add Category to Pages alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Add Category to Pages score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Add Category to Pages on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Front Page Category is the closest match to Add Category to Pages by the data we track, and Pages with category and tag has the widest reach with 50,000+ active installs. Autotagger Automatically Add Terms shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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