Easy Primary Category

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1. ★★★★★ shaunbowen

   6.9y ago

   I needed to choose the primary category for some posts I was importing from an older site, as WordPress was choosing the wrong one. This has saved me setting up loads of 301 redirects for the posts!

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2. ★★★★★ Exo

   7.1y ago

   Just another thank you here, love it. With a bit of manual coding in PHP I can now determine which category is more suited to a Woo Commerce product instead of the first of many selected.

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3. ★★★★★ unitedonline

   7.2y ago

   Great plugin! Saved me a lot of time while trying to put all my categories in order. Does wonders for SEO and the dreaded duplicate content issue. Works great with WP Version 5.2.2 Thanks for your effort.

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4. ★★★★★ OgdenNews

   8.1y ago

   This seems like something that should just be baked right into WordPress by default, but for some reason it just isn’t. Controlling which category gets used for your permalink is a big deal, but WordPress just doesn’t let you manage it. Why? I’ll never know… The only other plugin I found that could do this was Yoast SEO, but that comes with a TON of extra stuff that we just don’t need/want running on our sites. This was an incredible help and a great find! Thank you so much for making this a dedicated plugin!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-02-27 900+ → 1K+ up after 78 days in tier
2. 2024-12-11 800+ → 900+ up after 12 days in tier
3. 2024-11-29 900+ → 800+ down after 4 days in tier
4. 2024-11-25 800+ → 900+ up after 261 days in tier
5. 2024-03-09 700+ → 800+ up after 2 days in tier
6. 2024-03-07 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
7. 2024-03-06 700+ → 800+ up after 488 days in tier
8. 2022-11-04 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• S Simple Primary Category 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
• Pages with category and tag 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• Search & Filter 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• Category Posts Block 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A
• Media Library Categories 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A

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Easy Primary Category: 1K+ active installs, 5.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/easy-primary-category