2 Methods to Add Categories and Tags to WordPress Pages

When creating a WordPress post, both Categories and tags are helpful in organizing all the contents and make it easier for users to find what they are looking for. Do you want to learn how to add categories and tags to WordPress page? By default, it is impossible to do so. In this article, you will learn how you can add categories and tags to your WordPress page with and without plugins.

This is quite different from adding them to WP posts.

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How to Add Categories and Tags to WordPress Pages With Plugin

This is the easiest and fastest way to do this. It does not require any coding skills. Just a plugin.

1. Login to your WordPress account
2. Go to plugins, click add new
3. Search for Create And Assign Categories For Pages
4. Install and activate the plugin

See the results below;

 

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How to Add Categories and Tags to WordPress Pages Without Plugin

If for some reason you do not want to install an additional plugin on your site, you can use this method. The second way to add categories and tags to Pages is to add custom PHP code to the functions.php file of the active WordPress theme on your site.

1. Login To Your WP account.
2. Go to Appearance and then, Theme File Editor.
3. Click functions.php
4. Add the following lines at the very end of your theme’s functions.php then save your changes

function add_categories_to_pages() {
register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'page' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'add_categories_to_pages' );

function add_tags_to_pages() {
register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'post_tag', 'page' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'add_tags_to_pages');

The result of this PHP code will be similar to the above plugin.

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