wp-categories-widget

WP Categories Widget

Display the list of categories for any taxonomies type (WooCommerce Product Category, Blog Category, Project Category...etc) in sidebar

36.4 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

6.0Kactive installs

119.4Kdownloads

4.5rating

0unresolved threads

18complaints analyzed

16praise analyzed

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Download Momentum

180 days

624recent 30 days 779previous 30 days -19.9%movement 10.3Kshown total

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complaint review · high severity · relevance 0.98

Max control but buggy

Max control but buggy: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Max control but buggy (Initial review:) Love the extra control of category lists and the ability to choose which categories to show and which to hide.

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95

XSS flaw – high level security issue

XSS flaw – high level security issue: users show security, bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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XSS flaw – high level security issue I got a nasty warning about this plugin being susceptible to XSS attacks.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92

Chopping off the footer area

Chopping off the footer area: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Chopping off the footer area Hello, This plugin is very useful, the only issue I found is that, when I activate the plugin the footer get chopped off, maybe a closing DIV is missing in the coding, please have a look.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87

causes infinite scroll

causes infinite scroll: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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causes infinite scroll Pages where the widget is installed in the sidebar scroll into infinite whitespace below the footer.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86

Clicking on sub-items closes parent again

Clicking on sub-items closes parent again: users show compatibility, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Can someone help?

complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Doesn’t Work

Doesn’t Work: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Breaks entire theme.

complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Well, thought it was working until I tried to load on mobile.

Well, thought it was working until I tried to load on mobile.: users show pricing, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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I thought this plugin would be simple to install and use.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

Inclusion/Exclusion of categories doesn’t work anymore

Inclusion/Exclusion of categories doesn’t work anymore: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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We are seeing the same issue here.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

Category updates not showing in Widget

Category updates not showing in Widget: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Why are these not showing as options to select?

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Remove H Tag on Widget Title / override in Child Theme

Remove H Tag on Widget Title / override in Child Theme: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Remove H Tag on Widget Title / override in Child Theme Hi- Great Plugin!

Competitor Context

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Advanced Categories Widget praise owner · intel 72.6 · weakness 63.4

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stale update history 11 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check categories publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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Iks Menu – WordPress Category Accordion Menu & FAQs praise owner · intel 56.6 · weakness 34.7

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4 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect accordion menu layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues

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Category Country Aware WordPress praise owner · intel 56.4 · weakness 40.8

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stale update history 2 collected complaint signal(s) bugs performance 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check category publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed Great for Custom Taxonomies BUT if only (5 stars) review · 2025-12-16T14:30:43+00:00 · low severity · category widget

The reviewer likes custom taxonomy support but wants manual category ordering.

Evidence: if only you could order the categories yourself

missing feature quality taxonomy category ordering agency visual QA and update safety Evidence only

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complaint Problem with hiding categories support · 2024-06-26T12:11:13+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Problem with hiding categories: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This works fine in the sidebar that I created via the WordPress widget area.

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neutral Post Count not working support · 2024-05-21T16:42:30+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Post Count not working: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Post Count not working Hi anyone else has this problem, post count dont working? check or uncheck “Hide count” doesn’t change anything, post count not show in both Hi anyone else has this problem, post count dont working? check or uncheck “Hide count” doesn’t change anything, post count not show in both

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praise Great Plugin but can’t customize order (5 stars) review · 2024-03-17T03:53:27+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Great Plugin but can’t customize order: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great Plugin but can’t customize order It’s a simple yet efficient plugin.

compatibility easy performance quality agency visual QA and update safety Evidence only

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praise Great plugin but need option to open in a window (4 stars) review · 2024-02-26T17:20:25+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Great plugin but need option to open in a window: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great plugin but need option to open in a window WpCategory Plugin: Great plugin but would LOVE an option to open a category in a new Window.

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praise Great support (5 stars) review · 2024-01-31T10:47:36+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Great support: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great support The plugin for the dropdown display of categories is excellent for us, we are satisfied with everything, especially with the support!!

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praise Works great, authors fast with support, and solid behind it (5 stars) review · 2023-09-21T17:37:06+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Works great, authors fast with support, and solid behind it: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Works great, authors fast with support, and solid behind it Works great, does as it says, code is clean, authors are fast and responsive, go the extra mile and more with support, and are really solid behind it… Works great, does as it says, code is clean, authors are fast and responsive, go the extra mile and more with support, and are really solid behind it

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mixed XSS flaw – high level security issue support · 2023-08-11T18:00:47+00:00 · high severity · category widget

XSS flaw – high level security issue: users show security, bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: XSS flaw – high level security issue I got a nasty warning about this plugin being susceptible to XSS attacks.

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neutral Names of categories greyed out support · 2023-04-30T03:22:37+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Names of categories greyed out: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Only on mouseover could we see them.

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complaint Option to disable wcw-inlinecss support · 2023-02-21T18:46:28+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Option to disable wcw-inlinecss: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Option to disable wcw-inlinecss Please create an option to disable the embedding of the wcw-inlinecss (wcw-inlinecss-inline-css).

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praise \o/ ‘Hippity hip Hoorah‘ \o/ (5 stars) review · 2022-11-11T03:28:39+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

\o/ ‘Hippity hip Hoorah‘ \o/: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Easy to use ‘n it worked w/o any issues.

bugs easy agency visual QA and update safety Evidence only

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praise Simple and efficient (5 stars) review · 2022-10-23T13:21:44+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Simple and efficient: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Simple and efficient Simple and efficient plugin with good support.

missing feature support easy agency visual QA and update safety Evidence only

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complaint Doesn’t Work (1 star) review · 2022-10-11T03:33:31+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Doesn’t Work: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Breaks entire theme.

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complaint WP Categories Widget can’t uncheck categorie support · 2022-09-17T05:16:42+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

WP Categories Widget can’t uncheck categorie: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: WP Categories Widget can’t uncheck categorie After installing this widget, I unchecked a specific categorie and saved it.

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praise Great Plugin. I suggest a few improvements. (4 stars) review · 2022-07-22T19:31:52+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Great Plugin. I suggest a few improvements.: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great Plugin.

missing feature easy quality agency visual QA and update safety Evidence only

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complaint Sort categories by Number of posts support · 2022-06-03T02:32:30+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Sort categories by Number of posts: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Sort categories by Number of posts Hello, great plugin!

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complaint Max control but buggy (1 star) review · 2022-03-01T07:56:36+00:00 · high severity · category widget

Max control but buggy: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Max control but buggy (Initial review:) Love the extra control of category lists and the ability to choose which categories to show and which to hide.

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complaint Dashboard Widget Has Usability Issue support · 2022-02-26T00:44:40+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Dashboard Widget Has Usability Issue: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Dashboard Widget Has Usability Issue What’s with the area to choose the categories to show being white text on a light blue background?

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praise Recommended this Plugin to Several of my Clients (5 stars) review · 2022-02-26T00:37:11+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Recommended this Plugin to Several of my Clients: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I have also installed it, with success on two other client sites.

missing feature setup easy agency visual QA and update safety Evidence only

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complaint Show/hide widget on click? support · 2022-02-07T08:08:55+00:00 · medium severity · category widget

Show/hide widget on click?: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I suppose it’s possible with a CSS add-on, which is a premium feature.

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