MindCat
Enhanced category display as mindmap or list of cards with colors and images.
Maintenance 40/100288d since update
Active installs
200
Downloads
12,423
Reviews
4
Age
11.9y
Tagswidgetcategorycategoriesmindmap
Plugin info
Total downloads: 12,423
Active installs: 200
Total reviews: 4
Average rating: 4.3
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 4 language(s)
Contributors: 7
Last updated: 3/18/2025 (288 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 1/28/2014 (11 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.9
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.7.4
Minimum PHP version: f
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Stale • Last updated 288 days ago • 4 reviews
40/100
Is MindCat abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 288 days ago).
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 5.9
Tested up to: 6.7.4
Requires PHP: f
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Description
A panel of tools for taxonomy display.
Displays categories and subcategories as a mindmap, list of cards or list of terms.
Morehover, categories & tags can can be enrechied with colors and images.
Installation
- Upload
mindcatto the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress admin
- Start to use blocks or
[mindcat]shortcode
Shortcode usage :
[mindcat cat='' size=50 title='' hide_empty=0 count=0 max_level=0]
- cat: category id or slug
- size: range used to display distance between items
- title: for the root node
- hide_empty: show or hide empty categories
- count: show or hide posts count
- max_level: limits or not toe a defined level of sub-categories
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you can choose any category, all sub-categories will be children of your mindmap
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Changelog
2.2.2
- Fix broken callback for
[mindcat]shortcode - Fix Undefined array key “max_level”
- Fix Undefined array key “count”
- Fix Undefined array key “hide_empty”
2.2.1
- Use first post_type in show publication context
2.2.0
- Add option “show posts” in
mindcat/listblock - Add “H2”, “H3” and “H4” as possible heading levels in
mindcat/listblock - Update dependencies
- Dev: move bump-version to required-dev in composer.json
2.1.1
- Add square display mode (currently only functional for mindcat images)
2.1.0
Improvements:
- Add setting for the default mindcat image
- Add medium & large media size support in List block
- Add “none” display mode in List block
Fixes:
- Fix missing default image
- Fix image distortion for brand
2.0.0
- Add block support for mindmap
- Add new block: Mindcat List of terms
- Add possibility to select primary and secondary images on terms, with possibility to use a custom meta
- Security: escape all output
- Fix: PHP 8.0 compatibility
- Fix some warnings and notices
1.1.3
- use minified CSS/JS
- only load JS if needed
1.1.2
- more WP 4.3 compliant
1.1.1
release date: aug. 14 2015
- WP 4.3 compliant
- Code cleanup
1.1.0
- add: shortcode
[mindcat] - add: Parameters count, hide_empty, max_level
- fix: Optimize code
1.0.0
- Initial release