10 Best Easy Primary Category Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Easy Primary Category has 1,000+ 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 Easy Primary Category
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Bulk Move
Closest match4.5 (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 9 times 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 9 times the installs, no update since February 15, 2024.
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4.0 (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 tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since January 30, 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 10 times the installs, last updated December 11, 2025.
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4.8 (43) 2,000+ active installsDynamic menus: List all posts from a category in your menu. Also works for tags, custom taxonomies as well as pages and custom post types.
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
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The Events Calendar: Category Colors
5.0 (61) 4,000+ active installsAdd event category background colors to The Events Calendar events.
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated September 16, 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 9 times the installs, last updated July 19, 2026.
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4.8 (31) 2,000+ active installsAllows manual selection of a 'main' category for each post for nicer permalinks and better SEO.
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since December 6, 2018.
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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 tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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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 tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated July 14, 2026.
Switching from Easy Primary Category: common questions
What is the best alternative to Easy Primary Category?
Bulk Move is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 9,000+ active installs with a 4.5 out of 5 rating.
Which Easy Primary Category alternative has the most users?
Term Management Tools, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Easy Primary Category alternative is rated highest?
The Events Calendar, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 61 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Easy Primary Category 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 Easy Primary Category 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 Easy Primary Category 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
Bulk Move is the closest match to Easy Primary Category by the data we track, and Term Management Tools has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. Category Posts in Custom Menu shipped the most recent release, on August 28, 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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