Title: Need Plugin: Categorize Pages Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Need Plugin: Categorize Pages * [heyrsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heyrsmith/) * (@heyrsmith) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-plugin-categorize-pages/) * Hi all plugin devs. I have searched all over, but cannot find what I am looking for, so what would this cost me: * I need a way to either A) assign pages to various and multiple categories or B) have a page have more than one parent (I have 2 parents, why can’t my pages?!) * In either scenario I would need to be able to get a list of the pages (say in a sidebar) based on their category/parent affiliation. * I would like it as a plugin rather than some sort of hack. * The plugin should mod the “write page” interface so that I could assign the cats or multiple parent when writing the page. Is this possible? I am willing to pay you/donate to your favorite cause/ buy you something; and would like to donate the plugin back to the community. If anyone is interested in writing it, let me know here. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [xtoq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xtoq/) * (@xtoq) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-plugin-categorize-pages/#post-395419) * I would like to request this too. I’ve been waiting for ages for a hack or a plugin that would do this. I’m sure there’s internal reasons for this, but it seems to me other people would want something similar…so why isn’t it available?!? * [forceagainstsomething](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forceagainstsomething/) * (@forceagainstsomething) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-plugin-categorize-pages/#post-395420) * I might look into this. It seems this request keeps popping up, enough so that I would think the WP devs already have something like this in the works. But who knows… * – Sean * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-plugin-categorize-pages/#post-395421) * What would be then the difference between a Page and a post? Just curious… * Thread Starter [heyrsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heyrsmith/) * (@heyrsmith) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-plugin-categorize-pages/#post-395423) * Hi Moshu – for one, you can style pages using custom templates which you cannot do for posts. You can also make lists of pages into menus, and custom organize them in a variety of ways just by using the built-in WP parameters, not to mention the various page plugins out there. For one of my sites I am using WP as a simple content manager (The site has a blog front-end but lots of pages as well). The ability to have pages with multiple parents (or be categorized) would allow me to call the same page in a variety of menu configurations. Depending on what page was active. Say I have a page that is called “Home” and I want the page “ Child” to show up as a menu item. I simply make a menu that shows the children of “Home”, right? But suppose that I want the page “Child” to also show up in a menu for a page called “Work”. It would be great if “Child” were a child of“ Work” as well. Then I could use the same syntax to construct all of my menus. Page Categorization would work the same. I suppose that I COULD use individual posts and categories to do the same thing, but then my blogging categories would get full and confusing to other users that simply blog (this is also a multi- author site). By keeping posts and pages separate (although similar) I think it makes it easier for users. * Sean: Thanks for the offer – I would greatly appreciate it. As I stated above, I am happy to pay for your work in any manner that you wish ( I see that you have paypal). You can contact me at: rusty dot smith at auburn dot edu. * Thanks a lot! * [amulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amulet/) * (@amulet) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-plugin-categorize-pages/#post-395429) * I’m just throwing in my vote for a plugin like this, too. If anyone creates one, thanks in advance! * [zannmarketing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zannmarketing/) * (@zannmarketing) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-plugin-categorize-pages/#post-395507) * I was looking for the exact same plugin and found this: [Page Category Organizer](http://www.yellowswordfish.com/index.php?pagename=page-category-organiser-wordpress-plugin) after several hours of hunting. * It took a little while to decipher because it’s really quite flexible in what it can do. Tip: Read the readme file, it’s invaluable. * I had to hack the output function in pageorgfunctions.php to get it to display in my sidebar properly, but other than that, it worked straight out of the box. * Demo on my site [suezanntoh.com](http://www.suezanntoh.com/). Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Need Plugin: Categorize Pages’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/) * 6 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [zannmarketing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zannmarketing/) * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-plugin-categorize-pages/#post-395507) * Status: not a support question ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics