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.

Angelo Mandato

This simple plugin adds an HTML (Not XML) sitemap of your pages (not posts) by entering the shortcode [html_sitemap] in the page content. This simple plugin is configured with the <code>[html_sitemap]</code> shortcode. This plugin can display a sitemap with specific depths, from a specific parent page and include/exclude specific children. Shortcode attributes include <code>sort_column</code>, <code>sort_order</code>, <code>exclude</code>, <code>include</code>, <code>depth</code>, <code>child_of</code>, <code>meta_key</code>, <code>meta_value</code>, <code>authors</code>, <code>number</code>, <code>offset</code>, <code>post_type</code>, and <code>post_status</code>, everything the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>wp_list_pages</code></a> function accepts. In addition to the <code>wp_list_pages</code> options you can also set <code>class</code>, <code>id</code>, and <code>ordered_list_type</code> options.
This plugin is perfect for those who use WordPress as a CMS.
Please see documentation for the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>wp_list_pages</code></a> for a complete list of options.
The following options may be configured in addition to options documented in <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>wp_list_pages</code></a>:
The <code>class</code> and <code>id</code> attributes may specified set class or id values for the initial HTML Page Sitemap <code><ul></code> list tag.
The <code>child_of</code> attribute value can be a numeric page ID (integer), or use the custom value CURRENT or PARENT. The value “CURRENT” will use the current page’s ID. The value “PARENT” will uses the curent page’s parent ID.
The <code>ordered_list_type</code> attribute is an HTML Page Sitemap plugin exclusive option for specfiying an ordered list type. Not setting a ordered_list_type will use an unordered list (default).
<ul>
<li><code>ordered_list_type="1"</code> – The list items will be numbered with numbers</li>
<li><code>ordered_list_type="A"</code> – The list items will be numbered with uppercase letters</li>
<li><code>ordered_list_type="a"</code> – The list items will be numbered with lowercase letters</li>
<li><code>ordered_list_type="I"</code> – The list items will be numbered with uppercase roman numbers</li>
<li><code>ordered_list_type="i"</code> – The list items will be numbered with lowercase roman numbers</li>
</ul>
Note: This plugin only works with Hierarchical Custom Post Types. This plugin will not work if your post type is not heirarchical.
<h4>Examples</h4>
First example shows how to add a sitemap for the entire site.
<pre><code>[html_sitemap]
</code></pre>
Example shortcode will add a sitemap to a page displaying a depth limit of 3 and exclude page ID 708.
<pre><code>[html_sitemap depth=3 exclude=708]
</code></pre>
Example shortcode will add a sitemap to a page displaying only children and grandchildren of the current page.
<pre><code>[html_sitemap depth=2 child_of=CURRENT]
</code></pre>
Example shortcode will add a sitemap to a page displaying children and grandchildren of the parent page (would include the curent page as well).
<pre><code>[html_sitemap depth=2 child_of=PARENT]
</code></pre>
Example shortcode will add a sitemap displaying the page modified date with the pages sorted by the menu order number.
<pre><code>[html_sitemap show_date=modified sort_column=menu_order]
</code></pre>
Example shortcode excluding multiple pages with ids 708, 1024 and 42.
<pre><code>[html_sitemap exclude="708,1024,42"]
</code></pre>
Example shortcode will add a class attribute to the <code><ul></code> tag.
<pre><code>[html_sitemap class="custom-class"]
</code></pre>
Example shortcode will add an id attribute to the <code><ul></code> tag.
<pre><code>[html_sitemap id="custom-element-id"]
</code></pre>
Example shortcode will display an ordered list using lowercase letters with a depth of 1.
<pre><code>[html_sitemap ordered_list_type="a" depth=1]
</code></pre>
For the latest information visit the website.
<a href="http://www.pluginspodcast.com/plugins/html-page-sitemap/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.pluginspodcast.com/plugins/html-page-sitemap/</a>
<h4>ATTENTION: HTML-SITEMAP SHORTCODE HAS CHANGED</h4>
Though <code>html-sitemap</code> still works, the new HTML Sitemap shortcode is <code>html_sitemap</code>. The dash/hyphen may not get processed correctly if other plugins use the same prefix such as the Syntax Highlighter plugin. <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11948" rel="nofollow ugc">read more</a>, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17657" rel="nofollow ugc">and more</a>
<h3>Contributors</h3>
<a href="https://angelo.mandato.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Angelo Mandato</a>, Founder and CTO of <a href="https://www.painlessanalytics.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Painless Analytics</a> – Plugin author

HTML Page Sitemap

I felt the need to post a quick review for this plugin since it got a couple low ratings due to only including pages. The plugin clearly states it is for listing all of your pages only. It is not a normal XML sitemap. I'm giving it 5 stars because it is simple and does what I wanted. I simply wanted a page that listed all of my site's pages. This did it quickly and minimally. 

I do have one suggestion for the author. Rename the plugin. Instead of HTML Page Sitemap, perhaps it should be Simple Page List. Or, something that does not include "sitemap" since that word is what caused the couple low reviews, I think.

Simple

Adds an HTML (Not XML) sitemap of your pages (not posts) by entering the shortcode [html_sitemap], perfect for those who use WordPress as a CMS.

List categories vs HTML Page Sitemap