WP Categories Widget

by WP-EXPERTS.IN

Description

The “WP Categories Widget” is a simple plugin to display the list of categories for any taxonomies type (WooCommerce Product Category, Blog Category, Project Category…etc) on your wordpress website. Using WP Categries Widget you can display list of categories anywhere on your website. And also you can disable the widget block editor and enable the classic widget layut to edit the sidebar.

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`Features`

Disable Widget Block Editor
Display Categories Post Count
Hide Child Categories
Hide Widget Title
Show Categories for Any Taxonomies Type
Exclude/Include Categories

Addon Features

Display Category as Drop Down
Display Category Posts
Manage WP Widget Style (Background Color, Text Color, Border Style & Color)
Add Custom CSS for every Widget

Downalod Add-on.

Installation

Installing the plugin:

Unzip the plugin’s directory into wp-content/plugins.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
The categories post will be available on widegt page (Apperance >> Widget)
WordPress administration page.

Screenshots

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Faq

Can I disable widget block editor?

Yes, You can disable the block widget editor by enable settings .

Can I hide widget title?

Yes, You can hide widget title if you do not show in sidebar.

Can I show list of category from my custom taxonomy?

Yes,You can choose your custom taxonomy for show list of their all categories.

Can I exclude specific category from list?

Yes, We have given an option to exclude selected catgories from list.

Can I Show only selected category from list?

Yes, We have given an option to select multiple catgories to show in widget.

Can I hide child categoires from list?

Yes, We have given an option to hide child catgories from list.

Reviews

Great Plugin but can't customize order

By dj6082013 on March 17, 2024

It's a simple yet efficient plugin. However, I wish that it let me decide the order of WooCommerce categories by myself.

Great plugin but need option to open in a window

By (mdegive) on February 26, 2024

WpCategory Plugin: Great plugin but would LOVE an option to open a category in a new Window. Thank you. Michel

Great support

By ilinet on January 31, 2024

The plugin for the dropdown display of categories is excellent for us, we are satisfied with everything, especially with the support!! 🙂

Works great, authors fast with support, and solid behind it

By crzyhrse on September 21, 2023

Works great, does as it says, code is clean, authors are fast and responsive, go the extra mile and more with support, and are really solid behind it...

\o/ ‘Hippity hip Hoorah‘ \o/

By Karmi (karmi32680) on November 11, 2022

Just started a new Self-Hosted WordPress blog @ Hostinger and have searched for days to find a Categories drop-down plugin for my sidebar. Easy to use 'n it worked w/o any issues. Ditto on the \o/ ‘Hippity hip Hoorah‘ \o/

Simple and efficient

By skerjanecm on October 23, 2022

Simple and efficient plugin with good support. With added option in version 1.4.1 at widget settings to define the default category text for dropdown categories list. Which is very useful if you are using other language than English.

Doesn't Work

By TE5LA on October 11, 2022

Didn't work on my WP site. Added as widget, deselected some categories, they still show up on the sidebar. Breaks entire theme. Main body is blank. No posts display in body if category is selected.

Great Plugin. I suggest a few improvements.

By guitavares on July 22, 2022

Great plugin to add a functionality that should be already in wordpress core. I have a few improvements to suggest: - option to show all terms visible in a simple list, without the need to click the arrow to hide/show their children terms. Preferably without javascript, thus making it easier to style the list with custom CSS only. - option to make the initial state of the children lists all expanded instead of hidden. - option to hide a parent term but not their children. - option to make a parent unclickable, working only as a visual parent for their indented children list. - different sorting options other than alphabetical. - add a class to terms that are associated with current post so it can be highlighted with CSS. - advanced mode where user can select multiple terms before submit, working as a search filter, and a button for clearing all selected terms.

Max control but buggy

By martinlass on March 2, 2022

(Initial review:) Love the extra control of category lists and the ability to choose which categories to show and which to hide. The upgrade allows even more options, including CSS, which my native theme does not allow! Would like to see the option in the future to have the CSS for this plugin default to the theme's CSS for sidebar widgets. Other than that, all good! Update, a few days later: Gradually, my site loading got slower and slower, particularly as I began to take advantage of the Custom CSS feature in the Pro version. The first thing I noticed was that the Custom CSS sometimes applied only to the widget, but sometimes, it had site-wide effects, which is definitely NOT what is wanted. The second thing was that there did not seem to be any access to CSS for the list (categories) elements. I contacted support, asking for the default CSS settings, but despite the promise of "Faster support" for the Pro version, I have not heard anything back... nor from my very first support enquiry. So, two enquiries, no answers. How do I know that this plugin caused the site to slow almost to a standstill? Because, when I finally removed it completely, after first trying to simply reinstall the widget and after then simply deactivating the plugin, neither of which corrected the slow load of the website, everything went back to normal, i.e. the site is now loading correctly. I would have welcomed some feedback and support from the author of this plugin, but this was not forthcoming, so I had no choice but to reduce the rating and give this update.

Recommended this Plugin to Several of my Clients

By MarjoriesDaughter on February 26, 2022

I was prompted to recommend this plugin because in a meeting with a client today, she chose this plugin over an accordion-style navigation plugin. I have also installed it, with success on two other client sites. Some of the features my client liked: 1. When there are subcategories, making them visible keeps them visible until another action is taken. They don't disappear when the mouse moves. 2. She liked the feature that the number of posts in the categories can be hidden. 3. She liked how clean it was compared to another plugin we tried. For me, I like how easy it is to add to the site.

Changelog

2.5

Tested with wordpress version 6.6.2
Added posts tags option for taxonomy

2.4

Tested with wordpress version 6.4.2
Added dropdown display option

2.1

Tested with wordpress version 5.8
Optimized Code

1.9

Fixed 1.8 version css/js issues

1.8

Tested with wordpress version 5.5.1
Make user friendly select category list
Fixed minor issues
Released addon 1.1 verison

1.7

Tested with wordpress version 5.4.1
Added an optino to hide child category
Fixed child listing issue on click on parent cat link

1.6.1

Fixed exclude/include cat issue
Optimized child category style

1.6

Added child category dropdown features
Added an option to hide empty category
Tested with wordpress version 5.4
Fixed li issues with title

1.5

Tested with wordpress version 5.2.4

1.4

Tested with wordpress version 5.1.1
Fixed HTML error

1.3

Tested with wordpress version 4.9.7
Added an option to exclude/include categories

1.2

Tested with wordpress version 4.9.1
Fixed some minor issues

1.1

Tested with wordpress version 4.8.1
Fixed some minor issues

1.0

First release