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".

twodayslate

Widget to display your site’s most recent categories.
Current options:
<ul>
<li>Max number of categories to display</li>
<li>Title</li>
<li>Display date</li>
<li>Icon (if set by <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-category-icons/" rel="ugc">Simple Cateogry Icon</a>)</li>
<li>Display post count</li>
</ul>
GitHub: https://github.com/twodayslate/Recent-Categories-Widget

Recent Categories

Show your site's most recently used categories!

Category Expander vs Recent Categories