10 Best Enhanced Category Pages Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Enhanced Category Pages 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 Enhanced Category Pages
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Taxonomy Images
Closest match4.4 (40) 9,000+ active installsAssociate images from your media library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies.
Shares the taxonomy, term 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 taxonomy, term tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated December 11, 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 taxonomy, term tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated July 14, 2026.
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4.8 (20) 6,000+ active installsSort taxonomy terms, your way.
Shares the taxonomy, term tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated March 26, 2026.
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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 categories, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 21 days ago.
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4.9 (28) 10,000+ active installsQuickly and easily reorder taxonomy terms with an easy to use and intuitive drag and drop interface.
Shares the term tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since March 22, 2023.
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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, taxonomy tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated 4 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 10 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 10 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 10 times the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
Switching from Enhanced Category Pages: common questions
What is the best alternative to Enhanced Category Pages?
Taxonomy Images is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 9,000+ active installs with a 4.4 out of 5 rating.
Which Enhanced Category Pages alternative has the most users?
Autotagger Automatically Add Terms, with 40,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Enhanced Category 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 Enhanced Category 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 Enhanced Category 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 Enhanced Category 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
Taxonomy Images is the closest match to Enhanced Category Pages 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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