Arno Welzel

<p>This widget displays top level categories in multiple columns.</p>
<p>After installation, just add the widget to desired sidebar or footer and optionally enter a custom title and the number of columns to be displayed.</p>
<p>By default two columns are used, but you can set any number of columns you like in the backend.</p>
<p>Also see details at <a href="http://arnowelzel.de/wp/en/projects/wordpress/multicolumn-category-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">http://arnowelzel.de/wp/en/projects/wordpress/multicolumn-category-widget</a>.</p>


Multicolumn Category Widget

This widget displays top level categories in multiple columns.

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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.

Multicolumn Category Widget vs Category Cloud Widget