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>
</ul>

Featured Category Widget

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

Bastien Ho

NOUS Open Usefull &amp; Simple

aureliefoucher

Europe Ecologie Les Verts

A panel of tools for taxonomy display.
Displays categories and subcategories as a mindmap, list of cards or list of terms.
Morehover, categories & tags can can be enrechied with colors and images.

MindCat

Enhanced category display as mindmap or list of cards with colors and images.

Featured Category Widget vs MindCat