George Stephanis

<p>Sure, WordPress has a widget for displaying your most recent posts, but what if you want to only display the posts from a single category in a widget, and not everything?  This plugin Widget lets you set the title, category, and quantity of posts to display, then it kicks out a list of the most recent posts in that category.</p>


Recent Category Posts Widget

This widget will let you display a list of the most recent posts in a single category in your sidebar.

Themeisle

Valerio Souza

<p>This plugin will completely remove the ‘/category/’ from your permalinks ( e.g. <code>mydomain.com/category/my-category/</code> to <code>mydomain.com/my-category/</code> ).</p>
<p>No configuration is required</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ol>
<li>Better and logical permalinks like <code>mydomain.com/my-category/</code> and <code>mydomain.com/my-category/my-post/</code>.</li>
<li>Simple plugin – No configuration is required.</li>
<li>No need to modify wordpress files.</li>
<li>Doesn’t require other plugins to work.</li>
<li>Compatible with sitemap plugins.</li>
<li>Compatible with WPML.</li>
<li>Works with multiple sub-categories.</li>
<li>Works with WordPress Multisite.</li>
<li>Redirects old category permalinks to the new ones (301 redirect, good for SEO).</li>
</ol>
<h4>Heads up:</h4>
<p>Read the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-category-url/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a> before use.</p>
<p>Want to help? Use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-category-url" rel="ugc">support</a></p>


Remove Category URL

This plugin removes '/category' from your category permalinks. (e.g. /category/my-category/ to /my-category/)

Recent Category Posts Widget vs Remove Category URL