Fernando Briano

<p>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.</p>
<p>Usage:</p>
<pre><code>[categories orderby=count]
</code></pre>
<p>Will display links to all the categories and order them by number of posts in each category.</p>
<p>You can also <strong>list tags</strong> 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>.<br />
By default, the usage shows:</p>
<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>
<p>See <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_list_categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">wp_list_categories</a> for usage.</p>
<h3>Markup and Styling of Category Lists</h3>
<p>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>.</p>
<p>By default, wp_list_categories() generates nested unordered lists (ul) within a single list item (li) titled “Categories”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You can style the output with these CSS selectors :</p>
<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>
<p>For instance, you can remove the bullet points next to each category with:</p>
<pre><code>.cat-item {
  list-style-type: none
}
</code></pre>
<h3>Show categories list in columns</h3>
<p>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:</p>
<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.

dFactory

<p><a href="http://www.dfactory.eu/plugins/restrict-widgets/" rel="nofollow ugc">Restrict Widgets</a> is all in one solution for widget management in WordPress. It lets you easily control the pages that each widget will appear on and avoid creating multiple sidebars and duplicating widgets. You can also set who can manage widgets, which sidebars and widgets will be available to selected users, which widget options will be available and how it will be displayed.</p>
<p>By default, Hide widget on selected is enabled with no options selected, so all current widgets will continue to display on all pages.</p>
<p>For more information, check out plugin page at <a href="http://www.dfactory.eu/" rel="nofollow ugc">dFactory</a> or plugin <a href="http://www.dfactory.eu/support/forum/restrict-widgets/" rel="nofollow ugc">support forum</a>.</p>
<h4>Features include:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hide or display each widget on selected pages, posts, categories, custom taxonomies, custom post types, single posts, archives, special pages, for logged in or logged out users, current language, mobile device and so on</li>
<li>Select which user roles are restricted to manage widgets</li>
<li>Select which sidebars will be restricted to admins only</li>
<li>Select which widgets will be restricted to admins only</li>
<li>Select which widget options will be restricted to admins only</li>
<li>Choose to display or not widget options as groups</li>
<li>Option to modify the is_active_sidebar() function to use Restrict Widgets display settings</li>
<li>Multisite compatible</li>
<li>WPML compatible</li>
<li>Polylang compatible</li>
<li>.pot file for translations included</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Chinese – by Changmeng Hu</li>
<li>Czech – by Martin Kucera</li>
<li>German – by <a href="http://apart-webdesign.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Angelika Reisiger</a></li>
<li>Hebrew – by <a href="http://atar4u.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ahrale Shrem</a></li>
<li>Italian – by <a href="http://sododesign.it/" rel="nofollow ugc">Davide Pante</a></li>
<li>Polish – by Bartosz Arendt</li>
</ul>


Restrict Widgets

Works with SiteOrigin pagebuilder, quick and easy to use. 

Awesome!

All in one widgets and sidebars management in WordPress. Allows you to hide or display widgets on specified pages and restrict access for users.

List categories vs Restrict Widgets