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WordPress.org rating4.8 / 5 from 15 ratings
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WP PlugIndex currently records JS Categories List Widget version 4.1.1 as active, updated 7mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.
Overview
About this plugin
This plugin provides a widget and a filter to display a collapsible list of categories in your sidebar or posts by using vanilla Javascript.
Features
Support for Gutenberg blocks. Add it to any FSE theme or Gutenberg compatible theme.
Display a collapsed list of your archives to reduce space.
Uses vanilla JS to add effects and to be compatible with all browsers.
Select the symbol for expanding/collapsing categories
Select categories to exclude, so it shows only the categories you want.
Autoexpand selected category (including it parent or child).
Support for multiple instances.
Simple layout configuration
Shortcode support [JsCategoriesList]
Translated to Spanish, Italian Russian, Slovak, Czech.
Compatible with most JS cache and minify plugins.
And more to come…
Configuration
Title: title of the widget.
Trigger Symbol: characters to be displayed as a bullet.
Symbol position: where to put the expand/collapse symbol.
Effect: JS’s effect to use.
Order by: display order of categories.
Expand: if list should be expanded or callapsed by default.
Show number of posts: display how many post are published in the category.
Show empty categories: display categories with no posts.
Open links in a new page: render category links with target=”_blank”.
Categories to include: categories to be included from the list.
Categories to exclude: categories to be excluded from the list.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
block
categories
gutenberg
javascript
widget
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.1 · PHP 7.0
Update activity3 Apr 20267mo ago
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