Joseph Hinson

Do you have a lot of categories and are sick of having a huge list in your sidebar? Want to highlight only a few of them to make your site easier to navigate?
While redesigning WordPress sites for our clients we kept running into this problem over and over. They had a huge list of legacy categories but only wanted to highlight a few of them. We wrote this plugin to allow them to select which categories to show and which categories to initially hide.
All categories are still accessible by a “see all” link at the bottom of the list.
Add the widget to your sidebar to make it live.

Category Expander

Allows WordPress Admins to show only a selected few categories on the sidebar and hide the rest from view until visitor clicks "See All".

Vincent Mimoun-Prat

This plugin allows you to get better control on how your categories are listed. It provides a widget which lets you get more options than the default WordPress category widget (show RSS, hide empty categories, etc.). Furthermore, it allows to hide the children categories and use clickable buttons to expand them. The plugin requires jQuery to be included in your theme. It degrades nicely when javascript is not available to the usual WordPress category list.
All the instructions for installation, the support forums, a FAQ, etc. can be found on the <a href="http://enhanced-categories.vincentprat.info" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin home page</a>.
This plugin is available under the GPL license, which means that it’s free. If you use it for a commercial web site, if you appreciate my efforts or if you want to encourage me to develop and maintain it, please consider making a donation using Paypal, a secured payment solution. You just need to click the button on the <a href="http://enhanced-categories.vincentprat.info" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin home page</a> and follow the instructions.

Enhanced Categories

A plugin for wordpress which allows you to list your categories in a sexier way. Very useful when you have a great number of categories.

Category Expander vs Enhanced Categories