Advanced Categories Widget v2.4.1 – Want your WordPress categories widget with image? This categories widget for WordPress is an advanced widget that gives you total control over the output of your categories. Support multi-instances widget, category image, easy to customize and full features. When a category link is clicked, all the posts in that category will display on a category page using the appropriate category template dictated by the template hierarchy rules.

Key Features & Options

Category posts New features
Show description for displaying the categories description.
Style, with HTML list or none.
Order, ascending or descending.
Orderby count, id, slug or term group.
Depth, controls how many levels in the hierarchy of categories are to be included.
Number, sets the number of categories to display.
Thumbnail Height & Width, for diplaying the categories image size.
Include & Exclude, only include or exclude the selected categories.
Exclude Tree, exclude category-tree from the results.
Child of, only display categories that are children of the category identified by this parameter.
Current Category, allows you to force the “current-cat” to appear on uses of wp_list_categories that are not on category archive pages.
Search, only for searching given categories.
Feed, display a link to each category’s rss-2 feed and set the link text to display.
Feed Type, show the fed type in atom, rss, rss2, or rdf.
Feed Image, set a URI for an image to show as a link.
Hierarchical, set a URI for an image to show as a link.
Use description, sets whether a category’s description is inserted into the title attribute of the links created.
Show last update
Show count, toggles the display of the current count of posts in each category.
Hide empty, toggles the display of categories with no posts.
Custom Style & Script, if you want to add additional CSS style or javascript per given widget ID.

Advanced Categories Widget v2.4.1 Changelog

v2.4.1 – 15 September 2015
– Fix WP widget issue

Demo Advanced Categories Widget v2.4.1

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