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Display Categories Widget

by iteamweb

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Description

Display Categories Widget will display Child categories on your sidebar. Can be placed on widget in sidebar.

Development

Our development is being tracked on GitHub URL. Please fork, code, raise pull request, suggest improvements on GitHub.

Features
1. Limit number of categories that appears.

  1. Exclude categories from display.

  2. Restrict levels of categories that can be shown.

  3. Display categories as list or dropdown.

  4. Hide categories that does not have any posts.

  5. Display/Hide number of posts available in categories.

  6. Display/Hide category description on hover in title attribute

Support

How to contact plugin support?

We support through https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/display-categories-widget and http://www.iteamweb.com/open-source-softwares/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/display-categories-widget/

Arbitrary section 1

  1. Upload display-categories-widget folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Go to widgets page
  4. Drag and drop the widget where ever you need
  5. Choose the parent category to display the child categories in the front end
  1. On the backend widget configuration can be made like this

    On the backend widget configuration can be made like this

  2. This is how the widget will appear on your screen, you can add design to the class

    This is how the widget will appear on your screen, you can add design to the class

  3. Display categories with number of posts inside them

    Display categories with number of posts inside them

Will the plugin show parent category?

Yes its optional, if you need to make parent category visible you can enable from the widget

Is the category sorted?

The sorting order is ascending and it sorts on the name of the category

Exclude categories does not work?

Check if you have entered the category id’s and not the category names.

Will this plugin work for PHP version 5.6?

Yes, this plugin will work for PHP5.6 and if you face any parse errors , please report in support section forum.

Working & Awesome Support

By gamejump on April 17, 2020

This plugin works the job and the developer support also awesome

nice work!

By Pavlos7 on September 11, 2019

I was looking for such a plugin! So far so good, keep going this work!

Error unexpected '?'

By lalubasto on August 23, 2019

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?' while trying active the pluggin

I want to give five...

By crzyhrse on July 15, 2019

I want to give five stars, this is a great widget for controlling which categories show, but it hasn't been update in a year and there hasn't been much of any response in support for a lot longer than that.. I am crossing my fingers, hoping the plugin author might show some interest, check it out, bring it current...? This review can change...

For the support

By anthorfacte2019 on March 20, 2019

For the support, 2 weeks and 6 days without answer, and because one year without update. And i am not alone to said this.

thank you

By weerachart on April 15, 2018

thank you

great improvement over default

By dcmouser on January 31, 2018

A really needed improvement over the default categories widget. Great work.

Works but hard to style

By lunarboy on January 30, 2018

This plugin functions as advertised. But because of the way it's implemented, it is actually hard to style its spacing. Example: I had the widget as my first one in the sidebar, with the default WP Tag widget below it. The default spacing between the two widgets wasn't enough, and yet I couldn't add any more in CSS because the categories are displayed using Javascript. Therefore the browser thought the widget height was much less than what was displayed.

just for me!

By emanuelewpto on December 23, 2017

One widget perfect for my personal work. Simply, clear and immediately to use. Great!

Usefull Plugin

By cyrber on December 6, 2017

A very useful plugin for SEO and UX to display list of sub-categories, super fast support. Good Job !

3.1

  • Fixed warning for php 5.6 (Ternary operator updated) – Fixed: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘?’

3.0

  • Added default values to not initialized variables to avoid notes poping up in wp backend
  • Fixed deprecation warning for php 7.3 (create_function is deprecated)

2.2

  • Enable/disable display of category description
  • Code formatting
  • Removed Deprecated Constructor Method – Thanks https://github.com/frozzare
  • Added sorting option by name, id, post count

2.1.0

  • Ability to use more than 1 widget on same page with different parent categories
  • Code formatting

2.0.2

  • Bug fixes
  • Added a label for dropdown non-selection case

2.0.1

  • Removed deprecated WP_Widget

2.0.0

  • Updated a widget screenshot
  • Level of sub categories to be shown can be managed from widget settings
  • Exclude categories that you dont want to show on the front end

1.0.9

  • Added new screenshots

1.0.8

  • Displaying the list of categories in columnwise (Optional)

1.0.7

  • If nothing is selected then all categories will be displayed. Removal of deprecated functions

1.0.6

  • Optional display for Dropdown or List view of categories

1.0.5

  • Display Number of post in each categories

1.0.4

  • Display Empty categories Option

1.0.3

  • Display parent category show/hide option

1.0.2

  • Limit the number of categories that is displayed

1.0.1

  • Description Updated

1.0

  • Initial release.
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