Category Column

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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    The latest stable PHP 8.4.10 was released on 03 July 2025
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Ratings

1

Active installs

30

Total Downloads

15K

Support Threads

0

Last updated

26 February 2016

Added

03 January 2011

Versions

100%
  • Version 4.5

Screenshots

The plugin's work on our homepage
The widget's settings section
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Rating

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About Category Column

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FAQ

I styled the widget container myself and it looks bad. What do I do?

The styling of the widget requires some knowledge of css. If you are not familiar with that, try adding

padding: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;

to the style section.

My widget should have rounded corners, how do I do that?

Add something like

-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 5px;
border-top-left-radius: 5px;
border-top-right-radius: 5px;

to the widget style. This is not supported by all browsers yet, but should work in almost all of them.

My widget should have a shadow, how do I do that?

Add something like

-moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888;
-webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888;
box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888;

to the widget style to get a nice shadow down right of the container. This is not supported by all browsers yet, but should work in almost all of them.

Changelog

4.5

4.4

4.3

4.2.2

4.2.1

4.2

4.1

4.0

3.9.1

3.9

3.8.1

3.8

3.7

3.6

3.5

3.2

3.1

3.0

2.9.8

2.9.7

2.9.6

2.9.5

2.9.1

2.9

2.1

2.0

1.0

How to install Category Column

  1. Upload the category-coloumn folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory (I know, I made a spellingmistake on submission) 😉
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Place and customize your widgets
  4. Ready