Page navigation and hierarchy
The leading examples suggest two distinct page-related needs: navigation and page organization. WP-PageNavi has 400,000 active installs and was updated 2 months ago, while Nested Pages has 90,000 installs and was updated 1 month ago. Their names point to a distinction between navigation aids and managing page hierarchy.
Displaying posts and page content
Several prominent plugins have names tied to showing or inserting posts and page content.
- Display Posts: 70,000 active installs; last updated 25 months ago.
- Insert Pages: 30,000 active installs; last updated 4 months ago.
- Posts in Page: 10,000 active installs; last updated 91 months ago.
The category’s overlap with posts is particularly strong, at 159 plugins; 19 plugins also share the shortcode tag.
Page taxonomy, widgets, and page-specific controls
Other leading names point to taxonomy, widget placement, and controls associated with pages.
- Post Tags and Categories for Pages: 20,000 active installs; last updated 10 months ago. The related categories and tags tags overlap with 24 and 17 plugins, respectively.
- Tag Pages: 10,000 active installs; last updated 53 months ago.
- Widgets on Pages: 20,000 active installs; last updated 24 months ago. The widget tag overlaps with 25 plugins.
- No Page Comment: 10,000 active installs; last updated 11 months ago.
- Disable Author Archives: 10,000 active installs; last updated 2 months ago. The broader admin tag overlaps with 44 plugins.
A broad category with limited recent maintenance
The Pages category is broad, but high install counts are concentrated in a small number of plugins and recent updates are not widespread. Of 370 plugins, 1 has at least 100,000 active installs and 11 have at least 10,000; 22% were updated in the last year.
Maintenance varies among the leading examples: WP-PageNavi was updated 2 months ago and Nested Pages 1 month ago, while Display Posts, Tag Pages, and Posts in Page were last updated 25, 53, and 91 months ago, respectively.