10 Best Categories in Hierarchical Order Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Categories in Hierarchical Order has 2,000+ 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 Categories in Hierarchical Order
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Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types
Closest match4.4 (46) 10,000+ active installsMap your Gravity-Forms-generated posts to a custom post type and/or custom taxonomies.
Shares the custom taxonomy, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated August 4, 2026.
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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, custom taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 4.5 times the installs, last updated July 19, 2026.
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4.8 (20) 6,000+ active installsSort taxonomy terms, your way.
Shares the order, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated March 26, 2026.
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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, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 4.5 times 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, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated December 11, 2025.
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4.8 (23) 5,000+ active installsThis plugin can remove specific taxonomy base slug from your permalinks (e.g. "/genre/fiction/" to "/fiction/").
Shares the category, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.8 (34) 1,000+ active installsA plugin to add widget for listing Categories and Taxonomies. Extending Default WordPress Category Widget.
Shares the category, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated September 12, 2025.
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5.0 (24) 2,000+ active installsSwitch the taxonomy for all terms or only child terms of a specified parent term.
Shares the category, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated July 14, 2026.
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4.6 (48) 10,000+ active installsGet a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Search, add, edit, view, re-order – all is just one click away!
Shares the hierarchy tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated May 21, 2026.
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4.5 (37) 10,000+ active installsFully automatic sidebar menus.
Shares the hierarchy tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
Switching from Categories in Hierarchical Order: common questions
What is the best alternative to Categories in Hierarchical Order?
Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.4 out of 5 rating.
Which Categories in Hierarchical Order alternative has the most users?
Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Categories in Hierarchical Order 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 Categories in Hierarchical Order 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 Categories in Hierarchical Order 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 Categories in Hierarchical Order 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
Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types is the closest match to Categories in Hierarchical Order by the data we track, and Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. Advanced Sidebar Menu shipped the most recent release, on August 24, 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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