Add categories and tags to pages and display enhanced category and tag widgets or blocks with searchable exclusion controls.
Alternatives to Category Page Extender
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Display configurable lists of published posts and pages using a simple category shortcode.
Selective maintenance and service-status control for WordPress. Keep unaffected parts online with up to three independent Service Zones.
Quickly search and filter categories and taxonomies inside the WordPress admin.
This plugin allows you to use unfiltered HTML in your category descriptions by disabling selected WordPress filters.
You can easily add the TinyMCE (WYSIWYG) editor to WooCommerce product categories and tags "description" for better formatting options.
Formatting Extenderv3.0.1
Apply CSS classes to selected text or whole blocks, with class suggestions, inline badges, highlights, and theme-palette colors.
Collapsing Categoriesv3.0.12
Adds a widget which uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of posts for each category.
Mephivio Sommairev1.5.0
Display an elegant, multilingual category summary of your WordPress posts with search, filters, pagination and shortcode support.
SanctumGatev1.0.3
Simple granular access controls for WordPress sites. Keep content private for members while selectively making pages and categories public.