Linkify Categories
Turn a string, list, or array of category IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to those category archives. Provides a widget and template tag.
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·30 active installs·Updated 11 months agoAs of April 2026, Linkify Categories is a WordPress link plugin with 30 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Top alternative: Custom Post Type Permalinks.
0/5Rating
30active installs
13K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
The plugin provides a widget called “Linkify Catagories” as well as a template tag, c2c_linkify_categories(), which allow you to easily specify categories to list and how to list them. Categories are specified by either ID or slug. See other parts of the documentation for example usage and capabilities.
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Developer Documentation
Developer documentation can be found in DEVELOPER-DOCS.md. That documentation covers the template tag and hook provided by the plugin.
As an overview, this is the template tag provided by the plugin:
c2c_linkify_categories(): Template tag to display links to each of any number of categories specified via category IDs/slugs. You can customize text to show before and/or after the e…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
2.5 (2025-04-26)
- Hardening: Prevent unsafe markup from being output
- Update widget base class to v006:
- Hardening: Prevent unsafe markup from being output
- Change: Include version number in class name to ensure use of expected version
- Change: Move PHPCS-related inline comments with their associated
phpcs:ignorecomments
…and 6 more changes
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