Inbound Horizons

<p>Simple Dropdown Filter by Category for Woocommerce automatically adds a dropdown on your shop catalog page that allows you to instantly filter products by WooCommerce product categories. The dropdown will show up on the shop page, product archive page and product tag page. It shows a product count per each category by default. The plugin currently supports only selecting a single category to filter.</p>
<p>The dropdown filter buttons shows up to the right of the native WooCommerce “sort by” dropdown and uses native WooCommerce component code.</p>
<h4>Features and Extras</h4>
<p>You can choose to manually exclude certain categories to show up in the dropdown filter if you do not want users to filter by those categories.</p>
<p>You can toggle off or on showing product counts by category or showing empty categories in your shop.</p>
<p>You can set custom CSS classes for styling the button to match your theme, and even apply custom CSS directly to the plugin from the back end settings panel.</p>
<p>It will work with nested parent/child categories you create in WooCommerce and display the child categories underneath the parent in your dropdown menu when users select a category.</p>


Simple Dropdown Filter by Category for WooCommerce

Add a dropdown on the catalog page to filter products by WooCommerce categories.

Philipp Speck

<p>With this plugin you can edit sidebar contents like posts in the admin area and assign them from a dropdown menu to any post or page. It supports flexible dropping via widget for independent theme association.</p>
<p>It’s a matter of fact that people don’t want to code when they just want to change their contents. To keep a website interesting for visitors you can change the sidebar contents in context to the main content. Before you could realize it with different sidebar templates or conditional tags.<br />
Now you can do all these great things inside the admin area without any coding.<br />
Any anyway: Since we organize informations in databases all contents should be stored there as well.</p>
<p>From a dropdown menu you can easily choose all sidebars you have created.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Own <code>meta box</code> on post/page edit pages</li>
<li>Own menu item in admin menu</li>
<li>Registrates own <code>post type</code> for sidebars</li>
<li>Full editable sidebars like posts</li>
<li>Assign sidebars from dropdown menu</li>
<li>Flexible widget support</li>
<li>No coding needed</li>
<li>Oldest sidebar as default post</li>
<li>Loads sidebar from parent page if not assigned for children</li>
<li>Localization in English and German</li>
</ul>
<h4>Related Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.typomedia.org/wordpress/plugins/wordpress-custom-sidebar/" title="Homepage of WordPress Custom Sidebar" rel="nofollow ugc">Homepage</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-custom-sidebar/changelog/" title="Changelog for WordPress Custom Sidebar" rel="ugc">Changelog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-custom-sidebar/faq/" title="FAQ for WordPress Custom Sidebar" rel="ugc">Questions</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><br />
First drop the widget in the sidebar of your choice. Now uses oldest sidebar as default sidebar. Before installing or upgrading new plugins, please backup your database first! After upgrading to ‘WordPress Custom Sidebar 2.0’ you have to assign the widget again.</p>


WordPress Custom Sidebar

With this plugin you can handle sidebar contents like posts and assign them from a dropdown menu.

Simple Dropdown Filter by Category for WooCommerce vs WordPress Custom Sidebar