Displaying posts by category
Post- and widget-related tags are common overlaps in this category, alongside plugins whose names reference posts or widgets.
List category posts has 80,000 active installs and was updated four months ago. Flexible Posts Widget has 7,000 active installs and was updated 108 months ago. The category overlaps with the posts tag across 60 plugins and the widget tag across 45.
Categories across media, pages and products
Several leading plugin names connect categories with media libraries, pages and products.
- Media Library Assistant: 70,000 active installs; updated this month.
- Media Library Categories: 20,000 active installs; updated two months ago.
- Post Tags and Categories for Pages: 20,000 active installs; updated 10 months ago. The pages tag overlaps with 24 category plugins.
- Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce: 10,000 active installs; updated one month ago. The category overlaps with the woocommerce tag across 33 plugins and the admin tag across 21.
Taxonomy structure and category descriptions
Taxonomy-focused names and category-description names form another distinct group among the leading plugins.
- PublishPress Taxonomies: 40,000 active installs; updated this month.
- FV Top Level Categories: 20,000 active installs; updated 14 months ago.
- Visual Term Description Editor: 10,000 active installs; updated 27 months ago.
- Allow HTML in Category Descriptions: 8,000 active installs; updated eight months ago.
- No Category Parents: 6,000 active installs; updated two months ago. Across the category, 44 plugins overlap with the taxonomy tag and 18 with taxonomies.
A broad category with limited recent updates
The category has a wide range of plugins, but few reach high install counts and only a minority were updated recently.
There are 349 plugins in the category, none with at least 100,000 active installs, and nine with at least 10,000. The leading plugin, List category posts, has 80,000 installs; Media Library Assistant has 70,000, and PublishPress Taxonomies has 40,000. The first was updated four months ago, while the other two were updated this month.
Just 26% of category plugins were updated in the last year. The leading plugins show that established adoption does not correspond to one shared update pattern: their reported update timing ranges from this month to 14 months ago among the first six plugins by installs.