Alternatives to Featured Category Widget

Showcase a specific category with ease, including setting a featured image and listing child categories.

Snapshot
Rating: 0.0/5 (0 reviews)
Downloads: 1,422
Active installs: 10
Maintenance score: 20/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 3.5
Tested up to: 4.9.29
Requires PHP: 5.3

Top alternatives

These alternatives are selected programmatically using overlapping tags and then sorted by your chosen metric.

Showing 20 plugins
Active installs
Descending
Category Posts Widget
Category Posts Widget
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
(79)
Updated 153d ago
40,000 installs1,794,872 downloads56/100 • Maintained
List Custom Taxonomy Widget
List Custom Taxonomy Widget
The List Custom Taxonomy Widget is a quick and easy way to display custom taxonomies. Simply choose the taxonomy name you want to display from an auto …
(21)
Updated 855d ago
9,000 installs120,127 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Sub Categories Widget
Sub Categories Widget
This Widget lists the sub-categories for a given category.
(19)
Updated 1334d ago
5,000 installs67,543 downloads34/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Posts by Category Widget
Recent Posts by Category Widget
Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.
(12)
Updated 3274d ago
4,000 installs33,916 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP Category Post List Widget
WP Category Post List Widget
Widget & Shortcode to list down posts filtered by Category, with Thumbnails, Custom HTML structure, Excerpt, CSS theme with API & much more
(15)
Updated 5295d ago
3,000 installs105,546 downloads14/100 • Possibly abandoned
NS Category Widget
NS Category Widget
A plugin to add widget for listing Categories and Taxonomies. Extending Default WordPress Category Widget.
(34)
Updated 429d ago
1,000 installs42,669 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
Category and Subcategory List Widget
Category and Subcategory List Widget
This widget allows to add/update icons for category or icon for custom taxonomy. It lists Categories in horizontal menu pattern.
(4)
Updated 348d ago
700 installs38,651 downloads40/100 • Stale
Multicolumn Category Widget
Multicolumn Category Widget
This widget displays top level categories in multiple columns.
(5)
Updated 172d ago
300 installs18,104 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Category Post Widget
Category Post Widget
Category Post widget displays posts from a specific category. Number of posts to be displayed can be customized.
(2)
Updated 4640d ago
300 installs22,145 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Category Posts Widget
Recent Category Posts Widget
This widget will let you display a list of the most recent posts in a single category in your sidebar.
(2)
Updated 158d ago
300 installs21,642 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Exclude Category Widget
Exclude Category Widget
The widget will use for showing category list. You can exclude unwanted categories from category list.
(4)
Updated 3881d ago
200 installs5,158 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Related Posts by Category Widget
Related Posts by Category Widget
Customizable widget area that displays posts from the same categories as the current post.
(0)
Updated 5961d ago
200 installs12,482 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Multiple Category Selection Widget
Multiple Category Selection Widget
Filter posts by selecting multiple categories using dropdown menus. Available as a widget, block, or shortcode.
(14)
Updated 265d ago
100 installs78,001 downloads42/100 • Stale
Featured Category Widget
Featured Category Widget
The Featured Category Widget is basically a Featured Post Widget for a category.
(5)
Updated 3915d ago
100 installs29,825 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
MindCat
MindCat
Enhanced category display as mindmap or list of cards with colors and images.
(4)
Updated 200d ago
100 installs13,568 downloads40/100 • Stale
Category Description Widget
Category Description Widget
Enables a widget with the category description.
(3)
Updated 3292d ago
100 installs5,691 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Widget to Display Posts from Current Category
Widget to Display Posts from Current Category
This plugin allows you to display posts from the current category in the sidebar.
(3)
Updated 2751d ago
100 installs3,749 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Category Cloud Widget
Category Cloud Widget
The Category Cloud Widget is a widget that displays your categories as a tag cloud in your sidebar.
(1)
Updated 6765d ago
100 installs47,387 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Accordion Image Menu
Accordion Image Menu
Accordion Image Menu that allows to use the images attached to the posts and pages galleries as background.
(1)
Updated 5609d ago
100 installs40,557 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Category Content
Category Content
This Wordpress plugin (widget) will be shown when visitors are viewing a single post, category page or both. Otherwise, it wont be there at all.
(1)
Updated 5129d ago
100 installs9,301 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned