[Plugin: Easy Categories Management Widget] Recommendations for the Next Version

Hello,

Foremost: Thanks for this great & simple plugin. It’s great to be able to easily manage & select categories for the widget areas.

If I may, I’d like to make a few suggestions for the next version of this plugin.

Add ability to show OR hide noted categories
Right now, the widget awesomely allows users to select “Categories To Hide.” It would be great if there was a toggle to EITHER show or hide the categories that the user enters. That way, if there are a great number of categories and you only want to show a few, you can just enter the few that you want to show rather than all the categories that need to be hidden.

This might also help with the issue that if you hide a parent category, it also hides its children categories (whereas, sometimes, there are needs to show children categories without the parent categories).

Correct spelling issues in output code
In the code output by this plugin, there are some odd misspellings.

• The aside tag is given an ID of “easy-ategories-anagement” which should be “easy-categories-management”
• The aside is given a CLASS of “easy_categories_manage_widget” which should, probably, be “easy_categories_management_widget” (unless this is done to not conflict with references to the ID of the UL below)
• The UL tag is given an ID of “easy_categories_managementidget” which should be “easy_categories_management_widget”

Shorten Tag Classes & IDs
Aside from the spelling corrections above, it might actually be nicer if the classes & IDs in the tags were shortened a bit, just to clean up the code that is output from the plugin.
For example, using an ID of something like “ecm_widget” instead of “easy_categories_management_widget.” Just a thought.

Hope this helps make this fine plugin even better!

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