Advanced Category Column
The Advanced Category Column is a very customizable multi-widget for your sidebar.
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·30 active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, Advanced Category Column is a WordPress column plugin with 30 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Make Column Clickable for Elementor.
5/51 reviews
30active installs
15K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
The Advanced Category Column is mainly designed to give your blog a bit more of a newspaper behavior. E.g. The plugin shows the latest posts from all categories with an offset of three posts on your homepage.
If there is a post thumbnail, it will be displayed above the headline of the post. No further text will appear. If there is no thumbnail, only the headline and the excerpt of the post will be shown. When the plugin can detect neither the thumbnail nor the excerpt of a post, it will display just the first couple of sentences (or words) of a post.
So far that is the same as my Category Column Plugin does also. Not every theme has the possibility to hide certain sidebars on different pages. That’s where the advanced of our plugin comes in. In the ACC you can determine, where exact…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.9+ requiredTested up to 4.5.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
3.5
- Framework adjusted
- WP 4.5 ready
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