Grade C

Pages with category and tag

Name: Pages with category and tag
Rating: 4.8 (27 reviews)
Author: YAHMAN

⤓ Download v0.9.0 on WordPress.org ↗

by YAHMANupdated 2026-05-23🎲The Mixed Bag

Simple taxonomy magic that shares its tags with your posts.

Declining

79/100

This small plugin reliably adds taxonomies to pages but shares them with posts.

Loved30/40

Trustworthy14/15

Fair & Honest15/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum2/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

Show the snippet

add_action( 'init', function () {
    register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'page' );
    register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'post_tag', 'page' );
} );

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Active installs

~65,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 60k+

Rating

4.8★

27 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

-32%

Declining fast

95 → 65 installs/day

What to watch out for

MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
MINORdownloads down 32% vs a year ago

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Declining fast · -32% in the last year

95/day a year ago→65/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Pages with Category and Tag is a well-regarded, lightweight plugin that reliably adds category and tag support to WordPress pages, though it shares taxonomies with posts rather than keeping them separate, which is a limitation for some use cases.

What people like

+Does exactly what it advertises — adds category and tag support to WordPress pages with no configuration needed×10
+Works seamlessly as a drop-in replacement for similar plugins, preserving existing categories without tweaks
+Works in the Quick Edit view on the Pages list screen
+Responsive developer support

Common complaints

−Tags and categories are shared between posts and pages rather than being separate taxonomies, making it impossible to show a tag cloud or archive for pages only
−Does not add the category to the page permalink URL the way posts handle it
−No option to filter or display pages that have no category assigned

Review trustReviews look organic

4.80★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 27 total

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Latest reviews · 27 analyzed

2026-04-27★★★★★great plugin ucero
2026-01-16★★★★★Reliable and does what it says AlwaysEnthusiast
2026-01-02★★★★★Works as intended maybebernd
2025-04-23★★★★★Helpful myracat
2025-04-12★★★★★It does exactly what it says danielepais
2024-10-23★★★★★Works as advertised Envox d.o.o.
2024-07-18★★★★★Much appreciation for this plugin…crzyhrse
2024-04-19★★★★★Does what I need it to Chris Lovie-Tyler
2024-04-01★★★★★Magic !alt77x
2024-03-30★★★★★Issue with shared nature of the plug-in fusion01

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-05-23v0.9.0

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

Mean release-day peak (30d)

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

-12.9%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

20%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

1.70

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

93%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.81 → 4.80★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered