10 Best Pages with category and tag Alternatives in 2026
Updated October 22, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Pages with category and tag has 50,000+ 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 Pages with category and tag
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PublishPress Taxonomies
Closest matchPublishPress Taxonomies – Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms
4.6 (195) 40,000+ active installsTags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with PublishPress Taxonomies. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tag …
Shares the category, tag tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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4.4 (40) 8,000+ active installsAssociate images from your media library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies.
Shares the category, tag tags on WordPress.org. 8,000+ installs against 50,000+, 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, tag tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated December 11, 2025.
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4.5 (175) 40,000+ active installsSearch and Filtering for Custom Posts, Categories, Tags, Taxonomies, Post Dates and Post Types
Shares the category, tag tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated August 22, 2026.
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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, page tags on WordPress.org. 5,000+ installs against 50,000+, no update since January 30, 2024.
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4.7 (30) 20,000+ active installsEasily add a Post Categories to Wordpress Pages
Shares the category, page tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since October 19, 2019.
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4.8 (23) 4,000+ active installsThis plugin can remove specific taxonomy base slug from your permalinks (e.g. "/genre/fiction/" to "/fiction/").
Shares the category, tag tags on WordPress.org. 4,000+ installs against 50,000+, 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 tags on WordPress.org. 2,000+ installs against 50,000+, last updated July 14, 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 tag on WordPress.org. 9,000+ installs against 50,000+, last updated July 19, 2026.
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4.2 (52) 20,000+ active installsAdds the ability to use categories in the media library.
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated August 22, 2026.
Switching from Pages with category and tag: common questions
What is the best alternative to Pages with category and tag?
PublishPress Taxonomies is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 40,000+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which Pages with category and tag alternative has the most users?
PublishPress Taxonomies, with 40,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Pages with category and tag 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 Pages with category and tag 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 Pages with category and tag 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 Pages with category and tag 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
PublishPress Taxonomies is the closest match to Pages with category and tag by the data we track, and PublishPress Taxonomies has the widest reach with 40,000+ active installs. PublishPress Taxonomies shipped the most recent release, on October 5, 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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