8 Best Front Page Category Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Front Page Category has 5,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 8 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 8 closest alternatives to Front Page Category
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Add Category to Pages
Closest match4.7 (30) 20,000+ active installsEasily add a Post Categories to Wordpress Pages
Shares the category, page tags on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, no update since October 19, 2019.
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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 10 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
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4.5 (151) 6,000+ active installsAuto Excerpt for your posts on home, search and archive pages. Customize Read More button and thumbnail image. Easy to configure and have a lot of opt …
Shares the home tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since April 16, 2024.
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4.8 (48) 8,000+ active installsNot a big fan of green and black? Love the layout of Twenty Fourteen, but need its colors to match your brand? Don't have time to create a child …
Shares the customizer tag on WordPress.org. About 1.6 times the installs, last updated July 18, 2026.
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4.9 (57) 10,000+ active installsManage a site-wide central color palette for a uniform look'n'feel! Supports the new block editor, Theme Customizer and many themes and plug …
Shares the customizer tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since August 16, 2023.
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Organic Builder Widgets – Simple WordPress Page Builder
4.8 (85) 3,000+ active installsA simple WordPress page builder, Organic Builder Widgets provides a collection of 12 custom widgets to be used in the Customizer as content sections.
Shares the customizer tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since July 6, 2022.
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Custom Login Page Customizer – Login Designer
4.8 (150) 30,000+ active installsLogin Designer is the best way to style a custom login page for your WordPress login, register and forgot password forms, right from the live-action W …
Shares the customizer tag on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, last updated November 11, 2025.
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4.7 (113) 30,000+ active installsSimple and smart companion that allows you to insert sections into any existing page, create landing pages or entire websites including header and foo …
Shares the customizer tag on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, no update since March 24, 2025.
Switching from Front Page Category: common questions
What is the best alternative to Front Page Category?
Add Category to Pages is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 20,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which Front Page Category alternative has the most users?
Pages with category and tag, with 50,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Front Page Category alternative is rated highest?
Central Color Palette, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 57 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Front Page 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 Front Page 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 Front Page 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
Add Category to Pages is the closest match to Front Page Category by the data we track, and Pages with category and tag has the widest reach with 50,000+ active installs. Pages with category and tag shipped the most recent release, on August 13, 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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