Featured Category Widget
The Featured Category Widget is basically a Featured Post Widget for a category.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.2★ from 5
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 26 Feb 2016
- Added
- Mar 2012
- Requires WP
- 2.9
- Tested up to
- WP 4.5.33
- Downloads
- 29,959
Our analysis
AI-assistedThe Featured Category Widget is a WordPress plugin designed to highlight a specific category of blog posts. It displays post thumbnails above the headlines and allows you to choose between showing an excerpt or a portion of the post content. You can also customise the size of the thumbnails and style the widget to fit your site’s design.
This plugin is suitable for users who want to showcase a particular category prominently on their site, especially if the standard Featured Post Widget does not meet their needs. It is a straightforward solution for enhancing category visibility in sidebars or columns.
Best for: This plugin is best for WordPress users looking to highlight specific blog categories in their sidebars.
What it does well
- ✓Displays post thumbnails above headlines
- ✓Customisable thumbnail size
- ✓Options to show excerpts or post content
- ✓Individual styling available
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in February 2016
- •Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33
- •Limited active installs
Verdict
The Featured Category Widget offers useful features for displaying categories but may have limitations due to its age and lack of recent updates.
From the developer
tepelstreel's own description of Featured Category Widget, lightly tidied.
The Featured Category Widget is mainly designed because there were people for whom the Featured Post Widget was not enough. They wanted to put a category of their blog in the highlight.
If there is a post thumbnail, it will be displayed above the headline of the post. If there is no thumbnail, the first picture of the post is taken. You can set the size for the thumbnail or just take the standard from your options. Decide yourself, whether you want to show the excerpt, saved with your post or just the first three sentences or the first twenty words of the post. Style the widget individually, ready.
The Featured Category was tested up to WP 4.5. It should work with versions down to 2.9 but was never tested on those.