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".

Md. Sarwar Zaman

GS Plugins

WordPress Posts widget to display recent posts elegantly. GS Posts widget is a powerful widget plugin to display latest posts with thumbnails, author, published data, excerpt or full content. GS Posts Widget packed with necessary controlling options & 15+ different themes to present posts elegantly with eye catching effects. GS Posts widget plugin is perfect for Blogs & Online Magazines.
GS Posts widget plugin is simple, flexible & powerful.
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<h3>Plugin Features</h3>
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<li>Works with any standard WordPress Theme.</li>
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<li>Control Number of Posts.</li>
<li>On / off controls for – Post Title, Published Date, Author, Comments Count, Excerpt, Full Content, Read More, Thumbnail, Category & Tag.</li>
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GS Posts Widget

Thanks for creating this amazing plugin. I have one suggestion you can take as an idea for a future feature inclusion. You can add an option to filters posts with a determined offset. Let's say I already created a block with 2 posts displayed side by side. If I wanted to append a grid of the next 10 remaining posts, then the 2 I have just included will be repeated. Whereas if I select an offset, I can exclude the first 2 posts from the grid.

Great plugin

Best Responsive WordPress Posts Widget Plugin to display latest Posts elegantly.

Category Expander vs GS Posts Widget