Title: Recent Categories
Author: twodayslate
Published: <strong>April 28, 2015</strong>
Last modified: February 1, 2019

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Recent Categories

 By [twodayslate](https://profiles.wordpress.org/twodayslate/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/recent-categories.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-categories/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-categories/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-categories/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-categories/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/recent-categories/)

## Description

Widget to display your site’s most recent categories.

Current options:

 * Max number of categories to display
 * Title
 * Display date
 * Icon (if set by [Simple Cateogry Icon](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-category-icons/))
 * Display post count

GitHub: https://github.com/twodayslate/Recent-Categories-Widget

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * screenshot-1.png widget shown in sidebar of Twenty Fifteen

## Installation

Enable the widget in the sidebar

 1. Upload `widget.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Place `<?php the_widget('Recent_Categories_Widget'); ?>` in your templates
 4. Or add the widget to your dynamic sidebar in the dashboard (Appearance -> Widgets).

## FAQ

  What options are there?

You can set the max number of categories to show, the title, display icon, and the
date.

  How can I contribute?

Feel free to submit an issue or a pull-request on [GitHub](https://github.com/twodayslate/Recent-Categories-Widget).

  What is the best way to contact you?

Check out [my website](http://zac.gorak.us) for a list of ways to do just that!

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Recent Categories” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ twodayslate ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/twodayslate/)

[Translate “Recent Categories” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/recent-categories)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/recent-categories/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/recent-categories/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/recent-categories/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/recent-categories/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial Release

#### 1.1

 * Added support for [Simple Cateogry Icon](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-category-icons/)

#### 1.2

 * Rewrite
 * Added post count option

#### 1.3

 * Added before_title and after_title support
 * Bug fixes

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.0.25**
 * Tags
 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)[sidebar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)
   [widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-categories/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  1 5-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/recent-categories/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/recent-categories/reviews/?filter=4)
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## Contributors

 *   [ twodayslate ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/twodayslate/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/recent-categories/)

## Donate

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