Description
Widgetized themes often include support for adding a featured page or post, but often there’s no easy way to feature a category from your blog.
With Featured Category Widget you can easily featured a blog category (or a category from a custom taxonomy, like products), add a custom image and optionally show the category description and a list of sub categories.
Features:
- Add custom image and set display size.
- Optionally show category description and/or subcategories.
- Supports custom taxonomies.
- Developer friendly hooks and filters throughout.
- Translated into French, Spanish, German.
Screenshots
Example of plugin output using the twentyseventeentheme.
Example of plugin configuration, from Appearance > Widgets.
Installation
- Go to Plugins > Add New and search for “Featured Category Widget”.
- Click install, then activate.
- With the plugin activated, you’ll see a new widget called “Featured Category Widget”, which you can drag into your sidebar/ widget area and configure to you liking.
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
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- Go to Plugins > Add New and search for “Featured Category Widget”.
- Click install, then activate.
- With the plugin activated, you’ll see a new widget called “Featured Category Widget”, which you can drag into your sidebar/ widget area and configure to you liking.
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Contributors & Developers
“Featured Category Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.1
- Fix: Prevent jQuery setting all widget images to the last uploaded when using multiple widgets in Appearance > Widgets.
1.0.0
- Initial release.