Advanced Categories Widget
A highly customizable categories widget for WordPress with thumbnails and descriptions.
5(8 reviews)
·800 active installs·Updated 9 years agoAs of April 2026, Advanced Categories Widget is a WordPress category plugin with 800 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 21K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Pages with category and tag.
5/58 reviews
800active installs
21K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Build a better category list.
The Advanced Categories Widget is a powerful and flexible category widget for WordPress that makes building and displaying custom category lists a snap.
Organize your site in style with this highly customizable category widget!
Features
- Build multiple lists!
- Select which categories to display.
- Choose how to order your categories: name, post count, etc.
- Set the order for displaying the categories.
- Supports category thumbnails.
- Set and preview custom thumbnail sizes, or choose from your site’s registered image sizes.
- Show a description of each category.
- Set and preview the length of the description.
- Select the list format to match your site’s markup. Choose from:
ol,ul, ordiv. - Show post count.
- Choose the default (basic) CSS styling or roll your ow…
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Ratings & Reviews
58 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 4.5.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.1.0
- Updated admin js to use Widgins core js
- Updated admin css to use Widgins core css
- Added functionality to remove widget option when widget instance is deleted.
- Added uninstall.php
Contributors
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