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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<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.

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<p>The Category Cloud Widget is a widget that displays your categories as a tag cloud in your sidebar.</p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<p>You can see this in action on my site: <a href="http://leekelleher.com/linklog/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://leekelleher.com/linklog/</a></p>
<h3>Special Thanks</h3>
<p>Thank you to Matt Kingston, as this widget was based on his <a href="http://www.hitormiss.org/projects/weighted-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">Weighted Categories</a> plugin.<br />
Thanks to <a href="http://www.minmen.nl/" rel="nofollow ugc">Peter Hasperhoven</a> for introducing the ‘minimum number of posts’ option.</p>


Category Cloud Widget

The Category Cloud Widget is a widget that displays your categories as a tag cloud in your sidebar.

Featured Category Widget vs Category Cloud Widget