10 Best Category Checklist Tree Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Category Checklist Tree has 5,000+ 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 Category Checklist Tree
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Admin Menu Tree Page View
Closest match4.6 (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 admin, hierarchy tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated May 21, 2026.
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5.0 (50) 20,000+ active installsReplace the default taxonomy boxes with a custom metabox that uses radio buttons... effectively limiting each post to a single term in that taxonomy.
Shares the admin, ui tags on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, no update since January 28, 2025.
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Post Category Filter (WP Admin)
5.0 (25) 1,000+ active installsQuickly search and filter categories and taxonomies inside the WordPress admin.
Shares the admin, categories tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 21 days ago.
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4.5 (37) 10,000+ active installsFully automatic sidebar menus.
Shares the hierarchy tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 14 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 categories tag on WordPress.org. About 8 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 categories tag on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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4.4 (23) 20,000+ active installsThis is a fix of Top Level Categories plugin for Wordpress 3.1. and above.
Shares the categories tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, no update since September 3, 2025.
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4.8 (23) 20,000+ active installsAdds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages.
Shares the categories tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated January 7, 2026.
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4.2 (52) 20,000+ active installsAdds the ability to use categories in the media library.
Shares the categories tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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4.1 (29) 10,000+ active installsHide Categories and Products for Woocommerce. This plugins requires WooCommerce to be installed and activated
Shares the categories tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated April 29, 2026.
Switching from Category Checklist Tree: common questions
What is the best alternative to Category Checklist Tree?
Admin Menu Tree Page View is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which Category Checklist Tree alternative has the most users?
Autotagger Automatically Add Terms, with 40,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Category Checklist Tree alternative is rated highest?
Radio Buttons for Taxonomies, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 50 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Category Checklist Tree 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 Category Checklist Tree 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 Category Checklist Tree 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
Admin Menu Tree Page View is the closest match to Category Checklist Tree by the data we track, and Autotagger Automatically Add Terms has the widest reach with 40,000+ 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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