Enhanced Category Pages

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1. ★★★★★ Khampol

   2.7y ago

   Great function even now in 2024 ~! Thx !

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2. ★★★★★ willwenzel

   7.6y ago

   This is an amazing plugin. I’d gladly pay for an updated version that didn’t break a bunch of things on the back end, like the wordpress menus and gravity forms. But I still use it. If you can get it to work, it fixes one of wordpress’ big flaws – the ability to make your most important archives more than just a list with thumbnails. Please, Please, Please don’t abandon it! Thanks!

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3. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   7.9y ago

   It’s an old plugin. I expected to be able to edit categories with visual editor but it’s not possible. A nice design of a category is more easily achieved by modifying the template or it should make easy to associate category with static pages..

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4. ★★★★★ neilpayne

   9.1y ago

   The ability to add content to a category landing page has been needed on multiple sites that I’ve created with WordPress. This makes it easy to meet this need. Thanks for the plugin!

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5. ★★★★★ AJ Clarke

   9.1y ago

   Overall it’s a good plugin because it does what it says it does 😉 But it’s not really coded using the WP coding standards. The code isn’t bad but could be updated to use best practices – https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/coding-standards/php/ The Visual Composer support works ok, but the plugin doesn’t load the CSS from the ‘_wpb_shortcodes_custom_css’ custom field so you can’t add backgrounds, paddings, etc to rows/columns/modules. This is an easy fix which I can assist with. Do you have an active Github repo where I can submit a pull-request? Great work! – AJ

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6. ★★★★★ himarkus1

   9.3y ago

   It’s not compatible with the last woo-commerce update. it gives Fatal error: Call to a member function add_new_from_category() on null in /nas/content/staging/xxx/wp-content/plugins/enhanced-category-pages/classes/ecp/WP_Integration.php on line 248 any help, please…

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7. ★★★★★ pinkyblue

   9.6y ago

   At first I am super excited about this plugin and activated it. It gave error to my site so I tried to post in support forum but after 3 weeks there is no response which is not supportive in this terms.

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8. ★★★★★ csandreas1

   9.7y ago

   very useful, gives a nice flexibility to themes that cannot support html in product categories.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 0.1 Initial release. 0.1
2. — Version 0.2 Make php 5.3 compatible. 0.2
3. — Version 1.0 Enhance any taxonomy 1.0
4. — Version 1.0.1 bug fixing 1.0.1
5. — Version 1.0.2 setup_ec_data allows now category id as parameter 1.0.2
6. — Version 2.0.0 automatically show the enhanced content using category_description or get_the_archive_description filters customize the display of content with content-ecp.php theme partial template 2.0.0

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

Translated into 43 languages, 0 at 90% or more · development strings

Plus 19 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-02-24 3K+ → 2K+ down after 8 days in tier
2. 2025-02-16 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-02-15 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2025-02-14 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2025-02-12 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2025-02-11 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2025-02-09 3K+ → 2K+ down after 485 days in tier
8. 2023-10-13 4K+ → 3K+ 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).

• Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• Term Management Tools 10K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags B
• Taxonomy Images 9K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
• WP Term Order 6K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• Taxonomy Switcher 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• WP Term Images 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags B

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Enhanced Category Pages: 2K+ active installs, 4.4★ (23 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/enhanced-category-pages