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This plugin provides functions to retrieve the parent category of any particular post should it be assigned to a sub category of that parent category.
Using this feature, the plugin is also able to modify the WordPress Loop to redirect any category page generation to the parent category. This is especially useful when theme developers want to be able to specify category-x.php templates and have all related posts, be it those assigned to the category or the sub categories use that template for page generation.
So for example the current category structure is as follows.
<ul>
<li>Main Category (has category-x.php template)
<ul>
<li>Sub Category 1</li>
<li>Sub Category 2</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
A post is assigned to “Sub Category 2”.
When the post is requested the plugin will automatically detect if it has a parent category. If so, it will modify the WP variables to set the current category as the parent category and add a new variable stating the actual category of the post. This affects the WordPress Loop to category-x.php template defined for the parent
<h3>Usable Commands for Theme Developers</h3>
The PHP commands for theme developers to use are pretty straight forward.
get_category_child() returns the current post child category ID.
is_parent() checks if the current post is at the parent category.
get_category_title($id) gets the title of the category that is $id.
get_category_parent() returns the current post’s parent category ID.

Elevate Parent Category Template

Elevates parent category template to top of WordPress Loop.

2046

Easy is a multi-functional widget covering most of the native WordPress functions commonly used in templates. 
You can place almost any part of your content anywhere in your sidebars.
The widget is made out of drag&drop bits (bricks) and is totally up to you what you want to show on your website.
Showcase:
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N8KoQmQmXB0?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
Easy widget has variety of bricks representing the content and its logic. You can make simple or complex layout simply by dragging the bricks in to their slots and define on what cases it has to be shown or not.
Content bricks are:
<ul>
<li>title</li>
<li>content</li>
<li>featured image</li>
<li>categories</li>
<li>tags</li>
<li>taxonomies</li>
<li>custom meta</li>
<li>comments</li>
<li>author</li>
<li>date</li>
<li>shortcode</li>
<li>post gallery</li>
<li>sidebar</li>
<li>WPpagenavi (when installed)</li>
<li>…</li>
<li>and even your own content bricks if you like</li>
</ul>
The resulting content is displayed based on the logic you build the same way as you did the content. 
You just drag the logical bricks to their slot and the content will be shown based on that logic. 
Logical bricks are:
<ul>
<li>Number of posts</li>
<li>post type chooser</li>
<li>offset</li>
<li>hierarchical logic (for pages and alike) </li>
<li>category filter</li>
<li>custom meta filter</li>
<li>post status</li>
<li>edit link</li>
<li>permissions</li>
<li>meta filter</li>
<li>taxonomy filter</li>
<li>…</li>
<li>and even your own logic bricks if you like</li>
</ul>
In adition to that the result can be designed to your needs. You can add your own classes to the whole widget (the HTML structure) and also to each content brick (a part of the content). 
Then again it is totally up to you how you design your website.
Does it reminds you something? 
Yes, it is exactly what you do when you design your template; you loop through the post or pages in your template, but this time without touching the code. 
All the content and logical bricks are only graphical representation of the WordPress functions.
The aim of this plugin is to speed up common programming work, so we do not have to repeat our selves. 
Imagine a website made out of “sidebars” filled with widgets representing the list of last posts, menu, the image gallery, any content that is actually the website. 
All built out of widgets that you can re-arrange anyway you or your client like right out of the admin area. That is the main purpose of the widgets anyway, Easy makes it real.
<h4>Notice</h4>
In order to have the website fast as light even with the Easy plugin heavily in charge use the W3TC caching plugin [<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/" rel="ugc">1</a>]
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/general" rel="nofollow ugc">General description</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/view" rel="nofollow ugc">View description</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/control" rel="nofollow ugc">Control description</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/extend" rel="nofollow ugc">Extend</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Easy theme framework</h4>
A pure theme with slots (sidebars) for tons of your widgets. 
 * <a href="http://2046.cz/easy-framework" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy framework</a>
<h4>Compatible with (although not fully covering):</h4>
<a href="http://wpml.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate/" rel="ugc">qTranslate</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/&sa=U&ei=R-DNUcKJIM2B4AT7xoGwDQ&ved=0CAcQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNE2SU-CT1WLx80VKYlh4e1w6ZIcbg" rel="nofollow ugc">CCTM</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pagenavi/" rel="ugc">WP-pagenavi</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/" rel="ugc">W3TC</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/" rel="ugc">fancybox</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-to-posts/" rel="ugc">Posts 2 Posts</a>, <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced custom fields</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/timber-library/" rel="ugc">Timber</a> and others.

Easy

Plenty of options. Easy to use. Highly recommended to anyone who needs to create a custom configurable widget without the hassle of touching any PHP code. May need to add a dash of CSS to style your creation though.
One recommendation: Add a way to override HTML tags. For example, I prefer to use < article > instead of div and < li > for some items. A text field for the preferred HTML tag above the CSS text field would work well.
Thank you!

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