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Good advice (backing up EVERYTHING). I upgraded to the latest version with no problems. Worked like a charm. Also upgraded to WP 3.5, which also worked like a charm. Everything is good to go.

Thanks for the help. It is greatly appreciated.

One other thing; I have NOT upgraded to the WP 3.5 and am still running 3.4.2, if that’s of any significance.

This is not a live site. It is only on my local development machine. It’s a bit of a moot point anyway, as I’ve switched to a different plugin. Thanks for responding though.

Thanks for the feedback. I am downloading Jetpack as I type this and will investigate all options.

Thanks again.

I did as you suggested; installed the ‘wp php widget plugin’, actived it, copied and pasted the above code into each of the five widget code windows, gave them all unique names, input all the category IDs for all the categories I didn’t want to display in each one (via the ‘exclude’ arguments array element), and each one displays a list of unique categories.

It looks nice and they allow me to select a unique group of related parameters/categories, but when I make those selections, nothing happens. There is no relationship between any of the five category dropdown lists and there is no mechanism to perform a search based on those selections. There’s a ‘missing link’ to tie them all together and perform a search.

So, what was the purpose of this excercise, other than the obvious (that I need to look elsewhere)?

I agree with dskvr. This plugin is sorely missing a few things. In my case, having the ability to filter (exclude) categories would be very useful and would clean up the dropdown lists considerably. I have a lot of categories, and not being able to exclude the ones I don’t want to appear in a dropdown list, while not useless, makes for a messy dropdown list. Filtering (excluding) by category ID is all that’s needed.

Also, having the ability list and filter on post tags would be extremely handy as well. Just my 2 cents worth.

The ‘Standard’ WP categories dropdown widget doesn’t provide any filtering options at the admin user interface level, which makes it necessary to write code and modify files. Your widget doesn’t require any code development or page/widget modifications to impliment (great plugin, by the way) and is a big time saver.

All I need is the option to ‘Hide Tags Dropdown’ in each instance of the widget, so I can display multiple instances of your category dropdown, which you have developed to provide a simple, graceful and efficient method of filtering out undesired categories by ID number.

Where you have created a very nice admin level user interface, the standard WP categories widget user interface provides nothing, in terms of filtering categories. I am trying to avoid writing code and modifying files.

The original poster stated:
“I wanted to ask how can I get rid from tags dropdown in my sidebar.”

That’s exactly what I need to do (remove the Tags drop-down menu). There’s an option to “Hide Categories Dropdown”, but no option to “Hide Tags Dropdown”.

I have about 100 categories that are divived into groups of related sub-categories. I want to display multiple instances of your widget on a page and filter out specific groups of categories from each one; i.e. have one list of sub-categories in one, another list in another, and so on.

I also want to show only ONE dropdown list of tags on the page and exclude (hide” the tags dropdowns from all but one of the instances. In other words, I need a “Hide Tags Dropdown”.

Is there a simple way to do this?

GREAT pluggin, by the way. Nearly perfect.