v0.4

• Tested up to the latest version of WordPress.

WordPress plugin - List Categories

0.1

• First version based on this GitHub issue

Simple plugin to display categories in any post or page with a shortcode. It's basically a shortcode API interface to the wp_list_categories WordPress function.

Usage:

[categories orderby=count]

Will display links to all the categories and order them by number of
posts in each category.

##Installation

• Upload the plugin's directory into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
• Login to your WordPress Admin menu, go to Plugins, and activate it.

Options

By default, the usage shows:

• No link to all categories
• Sorts the list of Categories by the Category name in ascending order
• Displayed in an unordered list style
• Does not show the post count
• Displays only Categories with posts
• Sets the title attribute to the Category Description
• Is not restricted to the child_of any Category
• No feed or feed image used
• Does not exclude any Category and includes all Categories
• Displays the active Category with the CSS Class-Suffix ' current-cat'
• Shows the Categories in hierarchical indented fashion
• Display Category as the heading over the list
• No SQL LIMIT is imposed ('number' => 0 is not shown above)
• Displays (echos) the categories
• No limit to depth
• All categories.
• The list is rendered using a new walker object of the the Walker_Category class

See wp_list_categories for usage.