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viget/craft-flat-categories
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Select categories without hierarchy

2.0.0(8y ago)03.0kMITPHP

Since Mar 21Pushed 8y ago5 watchersCompare

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Flat Categories plugin for Craft CMS
====================================

[](#flat-categories-plugin-for-craft-cms)

This fieldtype is a clone of the Categories fieldtype, except it doesn't include any hierarchy when selecting categories.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0-beta.23 or later.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    ```
     cd /path/to/project

    ```
2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    ```
     composer require viget/craft-flat-categories

    ```
3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Flat Categories.

###  Health Score

30

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LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2971d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

craft-plugincraft3cmsCraftcraftcmscraft-pluginflat categories

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