AVH Extended Categories
The AVH Extended Categories Widget gives you two widgets for displaying categories. One is a replacement of the default category widget to allow for greater customization. The second is a Top Categories widget, which is only available in WordPress 2.8 and higher.
Current Release: Version 2.0.3 Released on: Jul 1, 2009
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Features
The replacement widget gives you the following customizable options:
- Title of the widget.
- Display as List or Dropdown.
- Show number of posts (Count) after the category.
- Hide empty categories.
- Show categories hierarchical.
- Show categories up to a certain depth. (Requires WordPress 2.8 or higher).
- Sort by ID, Name,Count.
- Sort ascending or descending.
- Show RSS link after the category as text or image.
- Select which categories to show. (Requires WordPress 2.5.1 or higher).
The Top Categories widget gives you the following customizable options:
- Title of the widget.
- How many categories to show.
- Display as List or Dropdown.
- Show number of posts (Count) after the category.
- Sort by ID, Name,Count.
- Sort ascending or descending.
- Show RSS link after the category as text or image.
- Select which categories to show. (Requires WordPress 2.5.1 or higher).
Download
Version 2.0.3 Released on Jul 1, 2009.
Donate
If you enjoy this plug-in please consider a donation. There are several ways you can show your appreciation:
- Amazon Wish List
You can send me something from my Amazon Wish List which is shown in the sidebar. - Through Paypal.
Click on the Donate button and you will be directed to Paypal where you can make your donation and you don’t have to have a Paypal account.
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 Forum2
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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
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
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
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.
Trying to change the title. But won’t save. Anyone else having this problem? How can I fix it to save title?
Thanks
Hi,
Thanks for great plugin. Just yesterday it stopped excluding categories,
the rest of the options is working fine. I want to exclude one
category but no go, it always is there. I uninstalled, installed again,
update to wordpress 2.7 but still can’t exclude the category.
How to “debug” it?
Thanks,
miki
Thanks nice plugin
I want to exclude one
category but no go, it always is there.
What website are you running it on and which version of the widget are you using?
Hi, excuse me for my bad english ..
It’s possibile to change the number of categories displayed and shows the top categories by number of posts ?
Thank you so much !
You can select which categories to show and order them by count(=number of posts)
What you can’t do is: Show me the top 5 categories based on number of posts.
How can I add this widget more than once to the sidebar?
I want to create different parts in the sidebar with different categories displayed, similar what flexipages does with pages. Under Available Widgets is “Extended Categories 1″ and the Add link. When I add the widget, the Add link disappear. It looked for me (because if the “1″), I could add more than one…
If you scroll down the page you will see an option to select how many widgets you would like.
Is it possible to set depth of displazed categories if thre is hierarchy?
For example I want to have only top level categories displayed, but not to manually set ID’s of subcategories to make them invisible.
Currently it is not possible.
I’m working on a new release and will implement this option.
I’ve category with many subcategories.
Is it possible to show only the subcategories but not the category?
You just have to select the categories you would like to display.
Hi, Great plugin. But it messed up my 2.8 installation/upgrade.
I get:
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: self in /home3/site-name/public_html/site-name/wp-content/plugins/extended-categories-widget/2.8/class/avh-ec.core.php on line 36
I had to delete the plugin via FTP to get WP up again.
What PHP version are you running?
I just released version 2.0.1 which should take care of the problem.
Excellent plugin! Thanks =)
Hi,
Thanks for this plug-in its just what I needed. I have implemented it on my site Animedimension.com. I am wondering if there is a way to customize the width of the drop down box?
Thanks…
The dropdown itself is created by WordPress itself. So if you change the CSS your theme applies it could change, but it probably will change for all dropdown boxes.
Hello Peter:
I tried to install your plugin via WP’s “Add Plugin” functionality, using WP 2.8, directly from the WP plugins site.
During the install process, I get the error:
Incompatible archive PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structureWhen I download the ZIP file from your site, and upload it to the WP Installer, everything works fine. You might want to look at the package on the WP servers.
Chris,
This seems to be related to a bug in WordPress itself. http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10104
Peter:
Thanks for the quick reply on this. I have tried this with other plugins, and agree that this is a WP bug.
Thank you for your hard work developing this plugin.
The option widget-extended-categories-1-hierachical does not work since version 2.0.2.
Thank you for reporting. I just released the bugfix, v2.0.3. Give it about 15 minutes before it’s available for download.