When I first started to use WordPress and kept an eye on the support forum, one of the questions that seemed to pop up quite often was ‘how can we assign categories to Pages?’. And the answer, of course, was always that you can’t. It’s not a built in feature and there is still no intention for it to be so.

I tried to fill this need with my old ‘Page Category Organiser’ plugin but it was far from perfect. Multiple or ‘child’ category assignments were not supported for example. Pages did not appear in a category archive list. I was sure I could do better!

The successor to Page Category Organiser is ‘Page Category Plus‘. It still does the ‘organising’ part but it now offers full support for categories as if Pages were Posts. This is why I think that before installing it, potential users should make sure this is what they really want. Pages sharing Post categories? Category Counts being updated? Category Archive lists including Pages?

If that’s what you want then this plugin will, hopefully, fill the need. It comes complete with a flexible ‘List Pages by Category’ template tag as well. Please note however, it is strictly for users of WordPress 2.3.

Someone (no doubt from the USA) asked me in a comment once if knew I had misspelled the word ‘Organiser’. I haven’t. This IS how it is spelt. Only the Americans changed it!