Display Categories Widget
Display Categories Widget will display Child categories on your sidebar. Can be placed on widget in sidebar.
4.8(25 reviews)
·4.0K+ active installs·Updated 6 years agoAs of April 2026, Display Categories Widget is a WordPress widget plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 25 reviews. It has been downloaded 85K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.
4.8/525 reviews
4.0K+active installs
85K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Display Categories Widget will display Child categories on your sidebar. Can be placed on widget in sidebar.
Development
Our development is being tracked on GitHub URL. Please fork, code, raise pull request, suggest improvements on GitHub.
Features
1. Limit number of categories that appears.
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Exclude categories from display.
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Restrict levels of categories that can be shown.
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Display categories as list or dropdown.
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Hide categories that does not have any posts.
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Display/Hide number of posts available in categories.
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Display/Hide category description on hover in title attribute
Support
How to contact plugin support?
We support through https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/display-categories-widget and http://www.iteamweb.com/open-source-softwares/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/display-…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.825 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Working & Awesome Support
by gamejump·5 years ago
This plugin works the job
and the developer support also awesome
nice work!
by Pavlos7·6 years ago
I was looking for such a plugin! So far so good, keep going this work!
Error unexpected ‘?’
by lalubasto·6 years ago
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘?’ while trying active the pluggin
For the support
by anthorfacte2019·7 years ago
For the support, 2 weeks and 6 days without answer, and because one year without update. And i am not alone to said this.
- This topic was modified 7 years ago by anthorfacte2019.
- This topic was modified 7 years ago by anthorfacte2019.
I want to give five…
by crzyhrse·7 years ago·2 replies
I want to give five stars, this is a great widget for controlling which categories show, but it hasn’t been update in a year and there hasn’t been much of any response in support for a lot longer than that..
I am crossing my fingers, hoping the plugin author might show some interest, check it out, bring it current…?
This review can change…
- This topic was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by crzyhrse.
Download Trends
Today: 7Yesterday: 7This week: 39Period total: 5K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 5.2.24 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.1
84.2%
v2.1
13.1%
Other
2.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.1
- Fixed warning for php 5.6 (Ternary operator updated) – Fixed: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘?’
Contributors
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