AVH Extended Categories
A replacement of the category widget to allow for greater customization of the category widget.
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Features
The following options have been implemented:
- Display as List or Dropdown
- Show number of posts (Count) after the category
- Hide empty categories
- Show categories hierarchical.
- Sort by ID, Name,Count.
- Sort ascending or descending.
- Select which categories to show. (Requires WordPress 2.5.1 or higher)
Download
Installation
Download the archive and extract all in the wp-content/plugins directory. Go to your WordPress administration page, click on Plugins and activate it. Go to the Presentation->Widgets page and drag the widget into the sidebar of your choice. Configuration of the widget is done like all other widgets.
Support
If you have comments/problems/suggestions, see something in the code which is not compliant to the WordPress Plugin Codex, or just want to say “Yeha! It works!”, feel free to create a post at the AVH Support Forum
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download link is not working.
cheers
Allan
Sorry about that, it’s fixed now.
hi
thank you for this great tool, i’m using it on my blog: http://www.xiiboo.com/powerfon/blog/
regards
marc
If the theme I used is no sidebar defined, when I checked in presentation - widget, is there any way to configure it manually in the code of the template? There’s eventually a sidebar but it didn’t show up in presentation widget somehow. So the only way to do it is to configure in the code manually.
In reply to #4
I answered your question of the support board:
http://forums.avirtualhome.com
How to configure category count? It does not seems to be working by default. Also How to stop categories showing, which does not have any posts under them?.
The plugin does not come under Options sub menu.
firstly, thankyou for this plugin, it seems to be just what I am looking for. However, I cannot type anything into the the title bar of the widget. A cursor flashes for a second in the title box then disappears. Any ideas? many thanks for your help
thankyou, Hannah
@hannah:
I posted your question and a reply on the forum at : http://forums.avirtualhome.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8
Hi,
Thanks for this plugin. I was looking for just something like this.
Any chance to see an exclude category option in a future release?
Keep up the great work!
- Johan
Johan,
That’s a great idea. It does mean I’ll have to rewrite the core part I’m using, but I’m liking it.
I’ll add it to my list of feature requests which can be found at the AVH Support Forum: http://forums.avirtualhome.com/viewforum.php?f=5
Hey,
Thanks for considering.
To not complicate things, just entering a string of comma separated category ID’s should do the trick. Perhaps, not the user friendliest solution, but some similar plugins like breukies category widget worked like that before it got broke with newer wordpress versions.
Then a new text input field for the id string should be all that’s needed to the form, and then add the string to the argument array. I’m not much of a php wiz, but I made a quick personal mod to your script where I just hardcoded in some categories at the end of the array to exlude. Adding: ‘exclude’ => ‘52,73′ to the end. Works perfect, but a bit tedious to update with new categories.
I’ll keep my eyes open if you decided to include it.
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