Fernando Briano

Simple plugin to display categories in any post or page with a shortcode. It’s basically a shortcode API interface to the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_list_categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">wp_list_categories</a> WordPress function. This means given any of the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_list_categories/#parameters" rel="nofollow ugc">parameters</a> accepted by the function, you can pass it in as a shortcode parameter to the <code>categories</code> shortcode.
Usage:
<pre><code>[categories orderby=count]
</code></pre>
Will display links to all the categories and order them by number of posts in each category.
You can also list tags or any other WordPress taxonomy. You need to pass a value to the <code>taxonomy</code> parameter. For example to list tags: <code>[categories taxonomy=post_tag title_li="Tags"]</code>. 
By default, the usage shows:
<ul>
<li>No link to all categories</li>
<li>Sorts the list of Categories by the Category name in ascending order</li>
<li>Displayed in an unordered list style</li>
<li>Does not show the post count</li>
<li>Displays only Categories with posts</li>
<li>Sets the title attribute to the Category Description</li>
<li>Is not restricted to the child_of any Category</li>
<li>No feed or feed image used</li>
<li>Does not exclude any Category and includes all Categories</li>
<li>Displays the active Category with the CSS Class-Suffix ‘ current-cat’</li>
<li>Shows the Categories in hierarchical indented fashion</li>
<li>Display Category as the heading over the list</li>
<li>No SQL LIMIT is imposed (‘number’ => 0 is not shown above)</li>
<li>Displays (echos) the categories</li>
<li>No limit to depth</li>
<li>All categories.</li>
<li>The list is rendered using a new walker object of the the Walker_Category class</li>
</ul>
See <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_list_categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">wp_list_categories</a> for usage.
<h3>Markup and Styling of Category Lists</h3>
Taken from the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories#Markup_and_Styling_of_Category_Lists" rel="nofollow ugc">wp_list_categories official documentation</a>.
By default, wp_list_categories() generates nested unordered lists (ul) within a single list item (li) titled “Categories”.
You can remove the outermost item and list by setting the title_li parameter to an empty string. You’ll need to wrap the output in an ordered list (ol) or unordered list yourself (see the examples above). If you don’t want list output at all, set the style parameter to none.
You can style the output with these CSS selectors :
<pre><code>li.categories { ... } /* outermost list item */
li.cat-item { ... }
li.cat-item-7 { ... } /* category ID #7, etc */
li.current-cat { ... }
li.current-cat-parent { ... }
ul.children { ... }
</code></pre>
For instance, you can remove the bullet points next to each category with:
<pre><code>.cat-item {
 list-style-type: none
}
</code></pre>
<h3>Show categories list in columns</h3>
For outputting the list into columns, you can use <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-multicol-1/" rel="nofollow ugc">CSS’s multicolumns</a>. Since by default the list is printed as an unordered list with the “categories” class, you can add this to your CSS:
<pre><code>.categories{
 column-count: 5;
 column-gap: 50px;
}
</code></pre>

List categories

Thanks for publishing this little plugin. I ended up taking the code and integrating it into a custom solution but the plugin is well put together and pretty powerful.
Some better docs would help make it more useful for folks.
Thanks for making this available!



Elegantly Written

Simple plugin to display categories in any post or page with a shortcode.

wpseek

As a whole, the new WordPress Admin panel is organized fairly well, however when it comes to editing posts or pages quickly without having to open each post or page in a new tab or window, it isn’t a very efficient process. For those who are using WordPress as a CMS, it’s important to be able to manage contents easily and quickly. That’s what this plugin helps to do.
It adds some icons to the posts/pages management panel with AJAX-driven CMS-known functions like toggling post/page visibility, changing publication date and title without having to open the edit screens or reload the page, plus changing page order with drag’n’drop, inline category management and inline tag management, plus much more.
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Features:
<ul>
<li>Ability to change post and page properties inline in the post or page management view</li>
<li>Toggle visibility with a single click</li>
<li>Quick Edit for Taxonomies (Categories, Tags, Custom Taxonomies, …)</li>
<li>Quick Edit for Custom Post Types (Title, Slug, Author, etc.)</li>
<li>Stick & unstick posts with a single click from within the posts listing panel</li>
<li>Change the publication date with a neat comfortable calendar</li>
<li>Change post/page title inline in posts/pages management view</li>
<li>Change post/page slug inline in posts/pages management view</li>
<li>Change page order inline in pages management view</li>
<li>Change order of (top level) pages via Drag’n’Drop</li>
<li>Change categories inline on post management page (inline category management)</li>
<li>Toggle comment status open/closed in posts/pages management view</li>
<li>Change tags inline on post management page (inline tag management)</li>
<li>Change media order inline in media management view</li>
<li>Change media description inline in media management view</li>
<li>Open post revisions inline in post/page management view</li>
<li>Change post/page author inline in post/page management view</li>
<li>Change link categories inline on link management page</li>
<li>Toggle link visibility with a single click</li>
<li>Time now can be chosen in the js popout calendar aswell</li>
<li>Change post order inline in post management view (Props <a href="https://www.coolcave.co.uk/" title="Jeff Cole" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeff Cole</a></li>
<li>Support for <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/" title="Exclude Pages" rel="ugc">Exclude Pages</a> plugin</li>
<li>Entirely possible to be localized, including the JS calendar</li>
<li>Two different button sets available</li>
</ul>
Included languages:
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German (de_DE) (Thanks to me ;-))</li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) (Thanks for contributing spanish language goes to Karin Sequen / https://www.es-xchange.com)</li>
<li>French (fr_FR) (Thanks for contributing french language goes to Gilles Wittezaële / https://gilles.wittezaele.fr/blog/)</li>
<li>Hebrew (he_IL) (Thanks for contributing hebrew language goes to Atar4U / https://profiles.wordpress.org/ahrale/)</li>
<li>Japanese (ja) (Thanks for contributing japanese language goes to kzh / https://homepage1.nifty.com/)</li>
<li>Persian(farsi) (fa_IR) (Thanks for contributing persian language goes to Amir Ashtiani / https://ouo.ir)</li>
<li>Turkish (tr_TR) (Thanks for contributing turkish language goes to wolkanca / https://blog.wolkanca.com)</li>
<li>Danish (da_DK) (Thanks for contributing danish language goes to Mads Christian Jensen / https://mads.eu/)</li>
<li>Czech (cs_CZ) (Thanks for contributing czech language goes to Josef Klimosz)</li>
<li>Dutch (nl_NL) (Thanks for contributing dutch language goes to Steven Goos / https://gooos.nl)</li>
<li>Polish (pl_PL) (Thanks for contributing polish language goes to Cezary Tomczyk / https://www.ikeris.com)</li>
<li>Russian (ru_RU) (Thanks for contributing polish language goes to Lecactus / https://lecactus.ru/)</li>
<li>Italian (it_IT) (Thanks for contributing italian language goes to Gianni Diurno / https://gidibao.net)</li>
<li>Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) (Thanks for contributing traditional chinese language goes to Disway Dong)</li>
<li>Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) (Thanks for contributing brazilian portuguese language goes to Prem Prakash)</li>
<li>Belorussian (by_BY) (Thanks for contributing belorussian language goes to Marcis Gasuns / https://www.fatcow.com)</li>
<li>Norwegian Nynorsk (nn_NO) (Thanks for contributing norwegian nynorsk language goes to Håvard Grimelid / https://grx.no)</li>
<li>Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO) (Thanks for contributing norwegian bokmål language goes to Håvard Grimelid / https://grx.no/)</li>
<li>Ukranian (uk_UA) (Thanks for contributing ukranian language goes to ghost / https://antsar.info/)</li>
<li>Romanian (ro_RO) (Thanks for contributing romanian language goes to Anunturi Jibo / https://www.jibo.ro)</li>
<li>Slovak (sk_SK) (Thanks for contributing Slovak language goes to Viliam)</li>
<li>Slovenian (sl_SI) (Thanks for contributing slovenian language goes to Mitja Mihelič)</li>
<li>Serbo-Croatian (sr_RS) (Thanks for contributing serbo-croatian language goes to Andrijana Nikolic / https://webhostinggeeks.com/)</li>
<li>Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) (Thanks for contributing chinese language goes to 斌果)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Licence</h4>
This plugins is released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog.
<h4>Notes on changing page order via Drag’n’Drop</h4>
Since Version 1.0 it is possible to change page order via drag’n’drop. Currently it’s only possible to drag top level pages, that means only those pages with no parent pages. It is planned to make it possible for child pages, though.

Admin Management Xtended

Adds AJAX-driven options to some admin management pages with CMS-known functions without having to open the edit screens.

List categories vs Admin Management Xtended