Welcome to the NZRT Wiki Podcast. Today we’re looking at Pages with Category & Tag.

If you’ve spent any time working with WordPress, you’ll know that out of the box, the platform treats posts and pages very differently. Posts get all the organisational tools — categories, tags, archives — while pages are left on their own, floating without any taxonomy support at all. That’s where the Pages with Category & Tag plugin comes in, and today we’re going to walk you through exactly what it does and how NZRT puts it to work.

So let’s start with the problem it solves. When you create a standard WordPress page — think your About page, your Contact page, a Services overview — WordPress gives you no built-in way to group or label those pages with categories or tags. They just exist independently, with no organisational structure connecting them. For a small site with five or ten pages, that’s probably fine. But once you’re managing dozens or even hundreds of pages covering different departments, content types, or business units, that gets messy very quickly.

The Pages with Category & Tag plugin fixes that by bringing the same taxonomy tools you already know from posts and applying them directly to pages. Once it’s active, you can do things you simply couldn’t do before.

Let’s go through the five main features. First, you get page categories. Just like you’d assign a blog post to a category, you can now assign any page to one too. This lets you group related pages together in a logical way. Second, there are page tags. Tags work differently from categories — they’re more freeform and keyword-based — and now your pages can carry them as well, making it easier to surface related content across the site.

Third, the plugin adds archive pages. If you navigate to a category or tag that contains pages, WordPress will now generate an archive view listing all of those pages. This is really useful if someone wants to browse everything within a particular grouping without having to search or click through menus. Fourth, there are taxonomy filters, which let you filter your pages by category or tag — handy when you’re managing content behind the scenes and want to quickly find everything in a particular group. And fifth, you get sidebar widgets for page categories and tag clouds. If you want to show visitors a visual list of page categories or a tag cloud in your sidebar, those widgets are now available to you.

Now let’s talk about how NZRT actually uses this plugin, because that’s where it gets practical for your day-to-day work here.

NZRT uses page categories primarily for module organisation. The modules in play include Customer, Sales, Finance, HR, Supplier, and EDM. So if you’re building out or maintaining pages that belong to one of those business areas, you should be assigning the appropriate page category when you publish. This makes it much easier to manage those sections as the site grows — you can quickly pull up all Finance pages, for example, or filter to see everything under HR without digging through the entire page list manually.

Beyond modules, NZRT also uses page categories for department pages, so pages that belong to a specific internal team or division get categorised accordingly. There’s also provision for regional pages, which would apply if content needs to be segmented by geographic area. And finally, content type pages fall into this system too — things like case studies and testimonials get grouped under their own category so they’re easy to find and manage as a distinct content type.

The core idea behind all of this is that WordPress pages, as powerful as they are for building a structured site, benefit enormously from some extra organisational scaffolding once the volume of content grows. The plugin provides that scaffolding without changing how pages fundamentally work. You’re not rethinking your page structure — you’re just adding a layer of taxonomy on top of what you already have.

If you’re ever adding new pages to the NZRT WordPress site, keep this in mind: check whether the page belongs to one of the established categories before you publish. Leaving pages uncategorised works against the whole point of having this plugin active. And if you think a new category might be needed — say for a new business unit or content type — that’s worth flagging with the team rather than creating unofficial categories without alignment.

This plugin sits alongside other tools documented in the NZRT wiki, including notes on post types and taxonomies more broadly, page structure and navigation, and the general plugins overview. Those are all worth a read if you want the fuller picture of how the WordPress setup here is organised.

That’s it for this episode of the NZRT Wiki Podcast. Thanks for listening.

Welcome to the NZRT Wiki Podcast. Today we’re looking at Plugins Overview.

If you’re working with the NZRT WordPress setup, this episode gives you a clear picture of the plugin ecosystem that keeps everything running. There are nine active plugins in total, and they cover four main areas: media management, data import, navigation, and content flexibility. One thing worth noting right up front is that Dolibarr integration is handled separately through agent REST API calls using the nzrt-tools MCP server, so there is no plugin bridge needed between WordPress and Dolibarr. That’s all taken care of at the agent layer.

Now let’s walk through the nine plugins one by one so you know what each one does.

First up is SmartSlider3 Pro, made by Nextend. This one handles your hero sliders and image galleries. If you see a visually polished sliding banner on an NZRT page, that’s SmartSlider3 doing its job.

Next is JC Importer. This is a CSV and data import utility, originally from the Joomla ecosystem but used here on the WordPress side. When you need to bring in bulk data from a spreadsheet or CSV file, this is your tool.

Third is Menu Icons, made by Icomoon. This gives you an icon-based menu system, so you can add visual icons alongside your navigation menu items instead of plain text links.

Fourth is YouTube Mass Videos Importer. The name tells you exactly what it does — it lets you embed large numbers of YouTube videos in bulk rather than adding them one at a time.

Fifth is Featured Image Plus, made by Pix. This extends WordPress’s default featured image handling with additional options, giving you more control over how thumbnail and hero images behave across different post types.

Sixth is Pages with Category and Tag. By default, WordPress doesn’t let you apply categories and tags to pages, only to posts. This plugin adds that taxonomy support so your pages can be organised the same way your posts are.

Seventh is Post Type Switcher, made by johnbillion. This is a conversion utility that lets you change a piece of content from one post type to another, for example turning a post into a page or vice versa, without having to recreate it from scratch.

Eighth is WPCat2Tag Importer. This one handles category-to-tag migration, which is useful when you want to reorganise your taxonomy and move items that were filed under categories into tags instead.

And ninth is the Kadence theme, made by Kadence WP. While technically a theme rather than a plugin, it’s listed here because it functions as the flexible block-based foundation the site is built on and is managed alongside the plugin stack.

All nine of these are currently active.

Now, if you ever need to install or reinstall any of these, the plugin zip archives are stored in the NZRT vault. The folder structure there mirrors the plugin names, so you have subfolders for the video embedder, featured image plus, JC Importer, menu icons, the SmartSlider3 Pro package, pages with category and tag, post type switcher, WPCat2Tag importer, and the YouTube mass videos importer. To activate any of them, you go to WordPress Admin, then Plugins, then Add New, and use the Upload Plugin option to push the zip file directly.

To put the full picture together, it helps to think of the plugins in four groups. For media, you have SmartSlider3 Pro, the YouTube importer, and Featured Image Plus. For content organisation, you have Pages with Category and Tag, WPCat2Tag Importer, and Post Type Switcher working together to give you a flexible taxonomy system. For admin and data tasks, JC Importer handles bulk data ingestion and Menu Icons tidies up the navigation. And as mentioned at the start, Dolibarr sits outside this plugin layer entirely, connected through the agent REST API rather than any WordPress-side bridge.

That’s it for this episode of the NZRT Wiki Podcast. Thanks for listening.

Welcome to the NZRT Wiki Podcast. Today we’re looking at Post Type Switcher.

If you’ve spent any time managing a WordPress site, you’ve probably run into this situation. You’ve got a blog post that really should be a page, or a page that belongs in a custom post type, and you’re staring at it wondering how to move it without breaking everything. That’s exactly the problem Post Type Switcher solves.

At its core, Post Type Switcher is a WordPress plugin that lets you convert content from one post type to another. So if you’ve written something as a standard blog post and you later realise it actually belongs in your custom post type for case studies, or testimonials, or module pages, you can make that change without losing a single thing. Your content stays intact, your metadata stays intact, your comments stay intact. It just lives under a different post type.

Let’s talk about what the plugin actually gives you. There are five main capabilities worth knowing about.

The first is what the plugin calls Quick Convert. This is a one-click conversion experience. You’re inside a post or page, you make your selection, and the switch happens. No complicated workflow, no export and reimport dance.

The second is Bulk Convert. Rather than opening posts one at a time, you can select multiple pieces of content and convert them all at once. If you’re doing a bigger site reorganisation, this saves a lot of time.

Third is what’s described as Safe Conversion. This is probably the most important one to understand. When you switch a post from one type to another, everything that belongs to that post comes with it. The content itself, the custom fields and metadata, the comment threads. Nothing gets left behind.

Fourth, there’s Hierarchy Support. If you’re working with post types that have parent and child relationships, those relationships are preserved through the conversion. So if you had nested pages or structured content with a parent, that structure stays coherent after the switch.

And fifth, Status Preservation. When you convert a post, it keeps whatever publishing status it had. If it was published, it stays published. If it was a draft, it stays a draft. You’re not accidentally taking live content offline just by changing its type.

Now let’s look at how NZRT actually uses this. There are four main use cases documented for us.

The one you’ll probably encounter most is converting blog posts into module pages. If the team has written something as a news post or a blog entry and it turns out it really belongs as a structured page inside a specific site module, Post Type Switcher handles that transition cleanly.

Similarly, if a page needs to become a product, that’s a straightforward conversion. Same goes in the other direction. The plugin doesn’t care which way you’re going.

The other two use cases are about converting standard posts into testimonials or case studies. These are typically custom post types, and getting content into the right type means it shows up in the right templates and feeds. Rather than recreating a post from scratch inside the correct type, you just switch it.

The underlying reason all of this matters for us is content structure. When you’re running a site with multiple custom post types, it’s easy for content to end up in the wrong bucket, especially early in a project when the structure is still being defined. Post Type Switcher gives you a way to correct that without a data migration headache.

It’s also worth noting what the plugin does not do. It’s not changing your content, it’s not reformatting anything, and it’s not touching your taxonomies or terms in ways that would break associations. It’s genuinely just moving the post from one type to another while keeping everything else as is.

If you want to dig deeper into how post types work in WordPress generally, the wiki cross-references a note on Post Types and Taxonomies, as well as the broader Plugins Overview and WordPress Overview pages. Those are good places to go if you need context on how the ecosystem fits together.

The short version is this. Post Type Switcher is a simple, safe utility that gives you flexibility when your content structure evolves. And in a managed WordPress environment like ours, that kind of flexibility is genuinely useful.

That’s it for this episode of the NZRT Wiki Podcast. Thanks for listening.