3 Ways to Add Categories and Tags for WordPress Pages

1. How to Add Categories and Tags for WordPress Pages Using a Plugin

The easiest and fastest ways to add categories and tags is by using a plugin (no coding experience needed)

1. Login To Your WP Dashboard.
2. Go to Plugins and then, Add New.
3. Search , Install and activate the Post Tags and Categories for Pages plugin

Once activated, navigate to Pages > Categories and you will find post categories and tags now available for your pages.

Before Adding Page Tags and Categories Plugin

After Adding Page Tags and Categories Plugin

2. How to Add Categories and Tags for WordPress Pages Without Using a Plugin

In this method we will hard code the Tags and Categories into WordPress without using plugins.

1. Login To Your WP Dashboard.
2. Go to Appearance and then, Editor.
3. Navigate to functions.php
4. Add the following snippet in 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' );

To add tags taxonomy in your page, add the following code in your functions.php

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

Once you have successfully added the above Codes, your back-end page layout should look like the image below

3. Alternative Way to Add Categories and Tags for WordPress Pages Using a Plugin

1. Enhanced Category Pages plugin
2. Categories Page Plugin
3. Add Category to Pages Plugins