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Numerous people are using WordPress for blogging and in many cases there are more than one authors on a website. It’s uncomfortably surprising that WordPress doesn’t support out of the box a category menu for each author separately.
I was looking for this feature online for my personal need but couldn’t find it on any plugin. To be exact I was using a modified version of <a href="http://www.makesites.cc/programming/by-makis/level10-blog-matrix-plugin-for-wordpress-2x/" rel="nofollow ugc">another similar plugin</a> but that was until version 2.3 where the database structure changed for WordPress and it simply stopped working.
As I saw it, it wasn’t worth fixing old, deprecated (and highly cluttered) code, and there weren’t any other solutions out there, so I decided to create a new plugin. Thankfully the new database and API made it as easy as I had hoped for.
I ended up with this plugin, that was created as a wrapper of the default category menu.
It is lightweight and can easily plug-in, plug-out. Furthermore, being an extension of the default category menu, means that none of the functionality (sorting, post count etc.) is lost. In fact it can be easily extended and could support future versions of the blogging platform for years to come.
<h3>Usage</h3>
After you upload an activate the plugin through your admin panel, all you need to do is call the custom function wp_author_categories() that will create an author’s menu for you. Notice that this only works in author pages and will revert to the default category menu in any other case.
If you are using the default template, you can easily find this line in “sidebar.php” (that displays the category menu): 
 < ?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li=Categories’); ?>
You can replace it with this condition that will use the wp_author_categories() function instead, when you are visiting the author pages
<pre><code> <?php 
 /*
 * First write down the arguments you want to use for you menu and store them in a variable. 
 * These are the same for the default menu ("wp_list_categories") and the author menu ("wp_author_categories")
 * you can find more information on the options you can use here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories
 */
 $args = 'show_count=1&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>';
 if($author){
 wp_author_categories($args); 
 } else{
 wp_list_categories($args); 
 }
 ?>
</code></pre>
Alternatively, and if you already have an “author.php” file in your template folder, you can simply rename “wp_list_categories()” to “wp_author_categories()”, passing the same arguments.
To uninstall, it’s as easy as doing the reverse actions. Delete all references of the wp_author_categories() function from your template files and uninstall the plugin through that WordPress’s admin panel.
<h3>License</h3>
This work is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License: 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

Author Categories

A wrapper of the default 'wp_list_categories' to present an author's menu, when in the author pages.

Prakhar Kant Tripathi

A lightweight helper plugin for Polylang users. 
This plugin shows per-language counts for posts, products, pages, and any custom post types that you have enabled in Polylang.
It does not change WordPress’s built-in counters (<code>All</code>, <code>Published</code>, <code>Draft</code>). 
Instead, it adds a clean info box above the list table showing counts for each language.
Works for:
<ul>
<li>Blog posts</li>
<li>Pages</li>
<li>WooCommerce products</li>
<li>Elementor templates</li>
<li>Any post type activated under 
Languages → Settings → Custom post types and Taxonomies</li>
</ul>
<h3>✨ Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Automatically detects all Polylang-enabled post types</li>
<li>Shows published count and total count per language</li>
<li>Works on all <code>edit.php</code> screens (Posts, Products, Templates, etc.)</li>
<li>No database changes, safe & lightweight</li>
<li>Compatible with:
<ul>
<li>Polylang (free)</li>
<li>Polylang Pro</li>
<li>WooCommerce</li>
<li>Elementor</li>
<li>WordPress Multisite</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>📝 Example Output</h3>
A small info box appears above the list:
 Language 
 Published 
 All Statuses
 Svenska (sv) 
 350 
 360
 English (en) 
 280 
 290
<h3>🎯 Why You Need This</h3>
Polylang does not display language-wise counts in the admin. 
Store owners and content editors often need to know:
<ul>
<li>How many products are translated?</li>
<li>How many posts exist per language?</li>
<li>How many items are missing in one language?</li>
</ul>
This plugin solves that without modifying WP core behavior.
Polylang is a registered trademark of WP SYNTEX. 
This plugin is an independent addon and is not affiliated with or endorsed by WP SYNTEX or the Polylang plugin.

Show Language Counts for Polylang

Adds per-language counts for Polylang-enabled posts and products in the admin without changing default counters. Unofficial, unaffiliated helper.

Author Categories vs Show Language Counts for Polylang