craigsimps

Widgetized themes often include support for adding a featured page or post, but often there’s no easy way to feature a category from your blog.
With Featured Category Widget you can easily featured a blog category (or a category from a custom taxonomy, like products), add a custom image and optionally show the category description and a list of sub categories.
Features:
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<li>Add custom image and set display size.</li>
<li>Optionally show category description and/or subcategories.</li>
<li>Supports custom taxonomies.</li>
<li>Developer friendly hooks and filters throughout.</li>
<li>Translated into French, Spanish, German.</li>
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Featured Category Widget

Showcase a specific category with ease, including setting a featured image and listing child categories.

Murali

WordPress press widget to list category and subcategories of posts/custom taxonomies of custom post types.
Features
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It allows users to add custom icons for category or for subcategory or for custom taxonomies
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It lists categories and subcategories in user-friendly horizontal pattern. Please refer screenshots.
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Category icons can be edited/removed/update with new icons under edit category or under edit custom taxonomy admin screen
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Admin settings of this widget has facility control display on/off for category icons
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Admin settings of this wiget has facility to show/hide count of posts in categories
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Admin settings of this widget has facility to show/hide empty categories in widget
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Title of widget can be customized in widget settings
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Compatible with blocks under widgets section
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<h4>My Links</h4>
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<li><a href="https://www.muraliwebworld.com/groups/wordpress-plugins-by-muralidharan-indiacitys-com-technologies/forum/topic/category-sub-category-widget-for-wordpress-websites-using-php-javascript-jquer/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin homepage</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/push-notification-for-post-and-buddypress/" rel="ugc">Push notification plugin for WordPress,BuddyPress and for Mobile apps</a></li>
<li>Twitter @<a href="https://twitter.com/indiacitys" rel="nofollow ugc">indiacitys</a></li>
<li>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/indiacitys" rel="nofollow ugc">indiacitys</a></li>
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Category and Subcategory List Widget


The concept does exactly what I wanted. Parent and child categories are both clickable, and only the parents are initially visible (that's good in the sidebar), and on click the WordPress search results page for the chosen category is displayed. I'm creating a new website for a tour operator, and they have a few tours to the Baltic area, a few to Afrika, a few to Asia... and 20 to Europe. The problem is when the mouse goes over Europe, the flyout child menu is positioned either above or below the parent item, depending on which direction has most space. But always pinned to the parent item. With 20 items in the child menu, it's always truncated (off screen) either at the top or the bottom. It would have space if you instead oriented the middle of it to the parent item - or better, make it equidistant to the top and bottom of the viewport. As is, I can't use it. And all this icon stuff, I don't need it so it's just adding bloat to the CSS sent to the browser. Could you not send it to the browser if icons are not selected?



Anyways, after a good laugh at the German translation of "empty cats" as "leere Katzen" (Katzen are those four-legged meow house pets), I updated the German translation. Look for Tim Reeves, Waldheim, Germany if you want it :)



And thanks for a well-conceived plugin!


Good concept, problem when a lot of child categories

This widget allows to add/update icons for category or icon for custom taxonomy. It lists Categories in horizontal menu pattern.

Featured Category Widget vs Category and Subcategory List Widget