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.

Amir Helzer

David Garcia Watkins

Pierre Sylvestre

Andreas Panag

WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce includes everything you need to start selling internationally. You can easily set up and manage products in multiple currencies, no matter the size of your store. Or, translate your entire store to reach new customers all over the world by purchasing WPML.
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<h4>Free Multi-Currency Features</h4>
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<ul>
<li>Add Currencies: show prices in over 200+ currencies.</li>
<li>Currency Switcher: display a currency switcher on product pages and widgets.</li>
<li>Switcher Content: display currency name, symbol, or code (e.g., Euro (€) – EUR)</li>
<li>Switcher Styling: display as list / dropdown, set background color, and add custom CSS.</li>
<li>Currency by Location: automatically display currencies based on a customer’s location.</li>
<li>Manual Exchange Rate: set your own custom exchange rates.</li>
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</ul>
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<ul>
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<li>Translate URLs: translate URL slugs and endpoints.</li>
<li>Translate Taxonomies: translate categories and attributes.</li>
<li>Translate Checkout: translate your cart, payment form, and confirmation pages.</li>
<li>Translate Reviews: translate user reviews on product pages.</li>
<li>Translate Emails: send emails to clients and admins in their language.</li>
<li>Currency by Language: automatically display currencies based on site language.</li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Compatibility With Woocommerce Extensions</h4>
WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce is fully compatible with popular extensions, including:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpml.org/documentation/woocommerce-extensions-compatibility/translating-woocommerce-subscriptions-woocommerce-multilingual/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Subscriptions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpml.org/documentation/woocommerce-extensions-compatibility/translating-woocommerce-product-add-ons-woocommerce-multilingual/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Product Add-ons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpml.org/plugin/woocommerce-product-bundles-2/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Product Bundles</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpml.org/documentation/woocommerce-extensions-compatibility/translating-woocommerce-bookings-woocommerce-multilingual/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Bookings</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpml.org/plugin/woocommerce-composite-products-2/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Composite Products</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpml.org/documentation/woocommerce-extensions-compatibility/translating-woocommerce-tab-manager-woocommerce-multilingual/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Tab Manager</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpml.org/documentation/woocommerce-extensions-compatibility/translating-woocommerce-table-rate-shipping-woocommerce-multilingual/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping</a></li>
</ul>
For the full list of compatible plugins, see <a href="https://wpml.org/plugin-functionality/woocommerce-extension/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML’s Compatible WooCommerce Extensions</a>.
<h4>Additional Resources</h4>
Looking for more info? Check out our guides for free and paid features:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/woocommerce-multilingual/multi-currency-support-woocommerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">Multi-Currency Features for WooCommerce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/woocommerce-multilingual/" rel="nofollow ugc">Multilingual Features for WooCommerce</a></li>
</ul>

WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce


Es muy triste que en 2023 wordpress no tenga un sistema ML nativo.



Que la mejor opción a día de hoy, sea WPML a pesar de los multiples fallos y de la poca integración de este en plugins, es lamentable.Hace 20 años Joomla ya contaba con el ML nativo, que le da 10.000 patadas a WPML y es gratuito.


La mejor opción ML a pesar de ello, muy mala.


Not only did it kill my website performance. Not only was it beyond complicated and buggy. It is also alleged to be a scam. They charged me 80 USD to translate five pages, they've sent an invoice for well over 250 pages (majority of which are inaccessible; the translations do not exist). The China-based company who may or may not still have my credit card on file (there is no clear explanation and no replies to my email) have no interest in after sales support or refunding or even understanding the problem. This stinks of a scam.



My website is now broken. Despite an incredibly fast, cloud hosted, premium server we now have hanging pages, 404's all over the shop and a useless translation plugin called WPML did the damage.Note carefully (I did not) the language on the credits page- a clever use of English implies the credits drop down to a fraction of a cent after the initial introductory credits are used. Note their refund policy. Note the 1 star ratings.Note carefully the estimator only reads the current list of pages displayed / previewed (I think by default its 10 or so pages). You have to go digging to increase this number to show all pages, only then can you see the correctly estimated credits required.



Note the slow pace of feedback: one moment you've spent 25 credits. Return to your screen 30 minutes later: 150,000 are gone.



I feel so stupid as having previously (5+ years ago) I did trial this plugin and found it broke the site, it is incredibly badly written and not optimised in any way shape or form.



WPML is no better than a scam. You would do much better to create a spreadsheet of your content and take it direct to a language translation site or perhaps get someone to stick it through some AI. You can then import those back into another CMS. I cannot remember leaving a bad review on Wordpress for anything, but you must be warmed WooCommerce Multilingual is a rip off and it is no wonder others have called it a scam. 


WPML will break your website and take your money.


It works correctly to translate WooCommerce. Thanks to Waqas Bin Hasan for the support.


Good

Make your store multilingual and enable multiple currencies.

List categories vs WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce