Category Expander
Allows WordPress Admins to show only a selected few categories on the sidebar and hide the rest from view until visitor clicks "See All".
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·10 active installs·Updated 13 years agoAs of April 2026, Category Expander is a WordPress widget plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.
0/5Rating
10active installs
4.1K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
Do you have a lot of categories and are sick of having a huge list in your sidebar? Want to highlight only a few of them to make your site easier to navigate?
While redesigning WordPress sites for our clients we kept running into this problem over and over. They had a huge list of legacy categories but only wanted to highlight a few of them. We wrote this plugin to allow them to select which categories to show and which categories to initially hide.
All categories are still accessible by a “see all” link at the bottom of the list.
Add the widget to your sidebar to make it live.
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to false |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
0.9.1
- Minor bug fixes
Contributors
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