Widgets » Categories Widget
The categories widget, as you’d expect, lists the categories of your blog for your readers – making it easier to navigate your content. You can add more than one categories widget to your blog. This widget organizes the categories alphabetically.
Title – Sets the title that will display above the categories in the sidebar.
Show as dropdown – Check this box to display the categories on a single line, as a drop down menu, rather than a list – which is handy if you want to save space or have a lot of categories.
Show post counts – If this box is checked, the the total number of published posts for that particular category will be displayed next to the link.
Show hierarchy – If you have parent and child categories (subcategories within your main categories) you can choose to display the hierarchy or just leave the list “flat”, without indication of which subcategories fit inside your main categories. For instance, let’s say I have a category Cooking, and within that Indian Food, Mexican Food, and French Food – I can choose to display them all mixed up with the other categories or have the different national cuisines grouped UNDER my main cooking category with indentation.
Video
Watch the “The Categories widget – carving up your content into bite-sized pieces” video from WordPress.tv.
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Last modified: December 20, 2008
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