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Top Level Categories

by Fortes · Uncategorized

This plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page (e.g. example.com/dogs instead of example.com/category/dogs)

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3
Rating quality 80
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-15%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “2K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.5K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install trend · reconstructed from 1378 daily snapshots

Details

Version
1.0.1
Last updated
8.6y ago
Added
2007-03-01
Requires WP
2.0.9
Tested up to
2.5
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-12-29 3K+ → 2K+ down after 648 days in band
  2. 2024-03-21 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1 days in band
  3. 2024-03-20 3K+ → 4K+ up after 1 days in band
  4. 2024-03-19 4K+ → 3K+ down after 454 days in band
  5. 2022-12-21 5K+ → 4K+ down

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Top Level Categories: 2K+ active installs, 5.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-14. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/top-level-cats