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Category Column

The Category Column does simply, what the name says; it will show excerpts of the latest posts in your sidebar.

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Tested up to WordPress 4.5
Current version4.5
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 4.5
Minimum stackWP 2.9 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update26 Feb 201610y ago
Active installations20Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 1 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Category Column version 4.5 as active, updated 10y ago and tested up to WordPress 4.5.

Overview

About this plugin

The Category Column is mainly designed to give your blog a bit more of a newspaper behaviour. g. The plugin shows the latest posts from all categories with an offset of three posts (which are in the main column) on our 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 sentenses (or words) of a post.

5. 9 but was never tested on those.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • category
  • column
  • newspaper
  • sidebar
  • widget
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 4.5

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 4.5.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to4.5
Minimum requirementsWordPress 2.9 · PHP not listed
Update activity26 Feb 201610y ago

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