Joseph Hinson

<p>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?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>All categories are still accessible by a “see all” link at the bottom of the list.</p>
<p>Add the widget to your sidebar to make it live.</p>


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".

Daiv Mowbray

<p>This is your Animated menu plugin that uses Mootools 1.4.5 javascript to form a multi-level collapsable menu widget in your sidebar for your categories and posts. Automatic opener upon page change. Highly configurable, theme based design, css based animations.</p>
<h3>OPTIONS AND CONFIGURATIONS</h3>
<p><strong>Available under > settings > SuperSlider-menu</strong></p>
<pre><code>* theme files to use for menu.
* menu accordion to work with click or mouseover
* allow close all tabs
* opacity transition
* transition speed
* transition type
* tooltips on categories on or off
* Vertical mouse tracer on or off
* Mouse tracer reaction speed.
* to load or not Mootools.js
* css files storage loaction

* Advanced options
* disable built in menu structure
* user defined objects, holder, toggler, content, and toglink.
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<p><strong>Available in the widget options pane:</strong></p>
<pre><code>* Show post counts in Category links
* Order of Categories
* Order of posts
* Show Rss link as text or image
* Limit number of posts to show
* Edit more posts link text
* Sort by category name or category id
* Sort in ascending or descending order<h3>Themes</h3>
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<p>Create your own graphic and animation theme based on one of these provided</p>
<pre><code>* Available themes
    * default
    * blue
    * black
    * custom<h3>To Do</h3>
* fix known bugs:

    * auto open toggler fails in some usage situations.<h3>Report Bugs Request / Options / Functions</h3>
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<p>* Please use the forum system at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/superslider-menu/</p>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p>This plugin is in use here at</p>
<pre><code>* <http://superslider.daivmowbray.com>
* <http://portfolio.daivmowbray.com><h3>CAVEAT</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>Currently this plugin relies on Javascript to expand and collapse the links.<br />
If a user’s browser doesn’t support javascript the list of cats and posts will display normally.</p>
<h3>HISTORY</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>2.3 (2012/10/10)</p>
<ul>
<li>upgraded for mootools 1.4.5</li>
<li>upgraded for WordPress 3.4+</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>2.1 (2010/06/02)</p>
<ul>
<li>fixed link to settings page</li>
<li>added save options upon deactivation option</li>
<li>Fixed the exclude – include bug</li>
<li>Fixed the show – don’t show empty categories bug</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>2.0 (2010/03/21)</p>
<ul>
<li>Complete rebuild</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>0.4 (2008/11/20)</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed bug – opacity on tooltips now works.</li>
<li>Moved option – Mouse tracer location, right or left of menu to css control.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>0.3 (2008/11/19)</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed bug – activeID is NULL when on non menu page.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>0.2 (2008/11/19)</p>
<ul>
<li>Added mootools / css powered animated tooltips on categories</li>
<li>Added Option, tooltips on categories  on / off</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>0.1.6 (2008/11/11)</p>
<ul>
<li>Added settings screen for plugin.</li>
<li>
<p>Added Options</p>
<ul>
<li>theme files to use for menu.</li>
<li>menu accordion to work with click or mouseover</li>
<li>allow close all tabs</li>
<li>opacity transition</li>
<li>transition speed</li>
<li>transition type</li>
<li>Vertical mouse tracer on or off</li>
<li>Mouse tracer location, right or left of menu</li>
<li>Mouse tracer reaction speed.</li>
<li>to load or not Mootools.js</li>
<li>css files storage loaction</li>
</ul>
<p>*Advanced options</p>
<ul>
<li>disable built in menu structure</li>
<li>user defined objects, holder, toggler, content, and toglink.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added theme system for menu.</p>
</li>
<li>Rebuilt html rendering file superslider-menu-list.php</li>
<li>Moved superslider-menu-ui.php into folder admin.</li>
<li>Added Reload default options to settings screen</li>
<li>Added settings link to wordpress plugin page</li>
<li>Added Set your widget link to settings page</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>0.1.2beta (2008/10/24)</p>
<ul>
<li>Added mouse tracer – follower and option to deactivate it.</li>
<li>Added clicked link memory to identify and deactivate the active page link.</li>
<li>Added transition to css class for the accordion toggler.</li>
<li>Added toggler open memory (via cookie) for page changes.</li>
<li>Moved all java script into file superslider_menu.js</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>0.1.0beta (2008/10/15)</p>
<ul>
<li>Changed name from Collapsing categories to Superslider-menu</li>
<li>Changed author from Robert Felty to Daiv Mowbray</li>
<li>Switched javascript from jquery to Mootools 1.2</li>
<li>switched html from unordered list to data list</li>
<li>Changed fold down icon to css based rather than image.</li>
<li>remove options:<br />
        – fold down icon type<br />
        – to animate or not<br />
        – expanding to show Cats and posts or just cats.<br />
        – auto expand these categories<br />
        – Category name as link to cat or not.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>


SuperSlider-Menu

This Animated menu plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapsable categories and posts.

Category Expander vs SuperSlider-Menu