Advanced Categories Widget

Description

Build a better category list.

The Advanced Categories Widget is a powerful and flexible category widget for WordPress that makes building and displaying custom category lists a snap.

Organize your site in style with this highly customizable category widget!

Features

• Build multiple lists!
• Select which categories to display.
• Choose how to order your categories: name, post count, etc.
• Set the order for displaying the categories.
• Supports category thumbnails.
• Set and preview custom thumbnail sizes, or choose from your site’s registered image sizes.
• Show a description of each category.
• Set and preview the length of the description.
• Select the list format to match your site’s markup. Choose from:ol, ul, or div.
• Show post count.
• Choose the default (basic) CSS styling or roll your own.

Developer Features

This widget was built not only with end-users in mind, but also plugin developers. Almost every aspect of this widget is extensible through filters and action hooks. You can even add your own form fields to the widget form!

• Need to remove a field from the widget form? Not a problem! Every field is passed through its own filter for easy customization.
• Need to modify the output of the widget? Easy! The output is passed through numerous filters, allowing you to customize the post list to meet your project’s requirements.
• For a full list of action hooks and filters, please see the plugin documentation: https://darrinb.com/plugins/advanced-categories-widget

Screenshots

Installation

From the www.ads-software.com plugin repository:

• Download and install using the built-in WordPress plugin installer.
• Activate in the “Plugins” area of your admin by clicking the “Activate” link.
• No further setup or configuration is necessary.
• Head on over to the Widgets screen or the Customizer to start building your lists!

FAQ

Where can I find documentation?

The plugin’s official page: https://darrinb.com/plugins/advanced-categories-widget

Can I contribute?

Of course! Have an idea for a feature? Reach out on the plugin’s official page. Want to dive into the code? Jump right in! Feel free to submit pull requests for new ideas & enhancements!

Check out the project’s GitHub page: https://github.com/dboutote/Advanced-Categories-Widget

Reviews

Great job!!!!!

Jesus Parrado Alameda March 31, 2017

You save me a lot of work, thank you!

Useful for organizing categories to widgets

geokongr February 23, 2017

Very useful. In a future update i suggest to give the ability to translate the words Post/Posts. I did that by just editing the 372 line of the fileclass-advanced-categories-widget-views.php with the following code with the following: __(‘$type_text’, ‘advanced-categories-widget’)

Neat and highly customisable

Ian Erlwanger February 10, 2017

Very simple and easy to use. You need a little coding experience to get the most out of it, but with just cursory knowledge of CSS you can completely customise every aspect of the category display.

Nice way to present posts

cagraphicdesign February 7, 2017

The look is clean and simple and the only plugin I found where I can easily select the categories to display. I used it in two separate widgets in one sidebar and it looks great

Great!

stevanator January 11, 2017 1 reply

Saved me a lot of time

Just what I was looking for!

jrcollins September 3, 2016 1 reply

This plugin is highly customizable and easily configured. It’s a great way to show off your categories.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.1.0

• Updated admin js to use Widgins core js
• Updated admin css to use Widgins core css
• Added functionality to remove widget option when widget instance is deleted.
• Added uninstall.php

1.0

• Initial release