GrandSlambert

<p>Display posts from selected taxonomies in your sidebars. Multiple formats including featured images are possible.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display posts with additional options from any or all entries in a slected taxonomy in your sidebars.</li>
<li>Option to display on posts in the same categories as the current post on single post pages.</li>
<li>Fully templated – add more templates in your own theme and select them in your widgets. Includes four templates.</li>
<li>Creates two new image sizes for use in widgets – set the sizes on the options screen.</li>
<li>Use the category title or write your own title, even link the title to the category (if one selected).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>This plugin includes the following translations. Translations listed with no translator were created by the plugin developer using Google Translate. If you can improve these, you can get your name listed here!</p>
<ul>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
</ul>


Pretty Sidebar Categories

Display posts from selected taxonomies in your sidebars. Multiple formats including featured images are possible.

Ben Huson

<blockquote>
<p><strong>This plugin in only required for versions prior to WordPress 3.5</strong><br />
  I am no longer continuing to provide support for this plugin. If anyone would like to take over commit access please contact me via the details in my profile.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This plugin collapses and reduces the height of hierarchical category and taxonomy panels in the WordPress admin.</p>
<p>It always bugged me that when editing a post the categories panel took up so much height if you only had a few categories. This was also the same for custom hierarchical taxonomies.</p>
<p>This plugin just adds a couple of styles to your admin to override this and collapse that space.</p>
<p>I created an initial patch for this which, with contributions from other WordPress developers, was included in WordPress 3.5. You can <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15925" rel="nofollow ugc">see the patch here…</a></p>


Compact Taxonomy Checkboxes

Collapse and reduce the height of hierarchical category and taxonomy panels in the WordPress admin (not needed for WordPress 3.5+).

Pretty Sidebar Categories vs Compact Taxonomy Checkboxes