Recent Categories

Widget to display your site’s most recent categories.

Current options:

• Max number of categories to display
• Title
• Display date
• Icon (if set by Simple Cateogry Icon)
• Display post count

GitHub: https://github.com/twodayslate/Recent-Categories-Widget

Enable the widget in the sidebar

1. Upload widget.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Place <?php the_widget('Recent_Categories_Widget'); ?> in your templates
4. Or add the widget to your dynamic sidebar in the dashboard (Appearance -> Widgets).

1. 

   screenshot-1.png widget shown in sidebar of Twenty Fifteen

What options are there?

You can set the max number of categories to show, the title, display icon, and the date.

How can I contribute?

Feel free to submit an issue or a pull-request on GitHub.

What is the best way to contact you?

Check out my website for a list of ways to do just that!

1.0

• Initial Release

1.1

• Added support for Simple Cateogry Icon

1.2

• Rewrite
• Added post count option

1.3

• Added before_title and after_title support
• Bug fixes