AVH Extended Categories Widgets

The AVH Extended Categories Widgets gives you three widgets for displaying categories.

1. Replacement of the default category widget to allow for greater customization.

2. A top categories widget. Shows the top X categories. This requires WordPress 2.8 or higher.

3. A Category Group widget. Shows categories from a group which is associated with the post/page that the visitor is looking at. Categories can be added to a group. Multiple groups can be made and every post/page can be associated with a different group. This requires WordPress 2.8 or higher.

The replacement widget gives you the following customizable options:

• Title of the widget.
• Display as List or Drop-down.
• Show number of posts (Count) after the category.
• Hide empty categories.
• Show categories hierarchical.
• Show categories up to a certain depth. (Requires WordPress 2.8 or higher).
• Sort by ID, Name, Count, Slug or manual order (Requires WordPress 3.3 or higher).
• Sort ascending or descending.
• Show RSS link after the category as text or image.
• Select which categories to show. (Requires WordPress 2.5.1 or higher).

The Top Categories widget gives you the following customizable options:

• Title of the widget.
• How many categories to show.
• Display as List or Drop-down.
• Show number of posts (Count) after the category.
• Sort by ID, Name, Count, Slug.
• Sort ascending or descending.
• Show RSS link after the category as text or image.
• Select which categories to show. (Requires WordPress 2.5.1 or higher).

The Category Group widget gives you the following customizable options:

• Title of the widget. Either per widget or per group.
• Display as List or Drop-down.
• Show number of posts (Count) after the category.
• Hide empty categories.
• Sort by ID, Name, Count, Slug.
• Sort ascending or descending.
• Show RSS link after the category as text or image.

You can set the following options for the Category Group Widget:

• Which group to show on the 'special' pages. The 'special' pages are: Home, Category archive, Tag archive, Daily/Monthly/Yearly archive, Author archive, Search results page.
• Which group to show when no group is associated with a post. Useful for older posts that don't have the association.
• Set the default group when editing or creating a post.

You can also select not to show the Category Group widget by selecting the group: None

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