10 Best Parent Category Toggler Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Parent Category Toggler has 10,000+ 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 Parent Category Toggler
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WP-ShowHide
Closest match4.2 (43) 9,000+ active installsAllows you to embed content within your blog post via WordPress ShortCode API and toggling the visibility of the content via a button.
Shares the toggle tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 29 days ago.
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4.6 (24) 4,000+ active installsArconix Shortcodes provides a number of useful design elements like buttons, boxes, tabs and toggles to help compliment any website.
Shares the toggle tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated July 30, 2026.
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4.7 (79) 6,000+ active installsArconix FAQ provides an easy way to add FAQ items to your website.
Shares the toggle tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since June 10, 2025.
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4.4 (50) 2,000+ active installsSimple plugin for WooCommerce which toggle grid / list view of your products and toggle products count per page.
Shares the toggle tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 10 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 category tag on WordPress.org. About 4 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 category tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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4.5 (175) 50,000+ active installsSearch and Filtering for Custom Posts, Categories, Tags, Taxonomies, Post Dates and Post Types
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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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 2 times the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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4.7 (30) 20,000+ active installsEasily add a Post Categories to Wordpress Pages
Shares the category tag on WordPress.org. About 2 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 tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
Switching from Parent Category Toggler: common questions
What is the best alternative to Parent Category Toggler?
WP-ShowHide is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 9,000+ active installs with a 4.2 out of 5 rating.
Which Parent Category Toggler alternative has the most users?
Search & Filter, with 50,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Parent Category Toggler alternative is rated highest?
Arconix FAQ, rated 4.7 out of 5 by 79 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Parent Category Toggler 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 Parent Category Toggler 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 Parent Category Toggler 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
WP-ShowHide is the closest match to Parent Category Toggler by the data we track, and Search & Filter has the widest reach with 50,000+ 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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