Multi Column Category List Plugin for WordPress

Hi I’m having problems with the plugin. I can’t seem to get this to work in my sidebar “categories”. What do I do?? I’d also like to remove the letter header. Can somebody help??!! Maximum frustration levels

Looks great! Am planning to install it on one of my sites. Is it compatible with the latest version, 2.9.2?

I have installed your plugin and really its nice one.

I have many categories and sub-categories and needs to display the sub-categories under each main category.

Please let me know how to do this.

hi, very nice plugin. good job! is there a way to do the same thing for the wp_get_archives stuff?
thanks tobi

It’s working but I can’t make the column have an equal number of categories. I mean, I get 10 category names on the left and 3 on the right. How to get them even? Thanks.

Great plugin, thank you for that! But is there a chance to show the number of posts after every category? Like “Apples (5), Lions (134), …”? That would be so awesome!

i am using this great plugin from last 6 months and working fine.
but
there is problem in 2 columns. only 1 is displaying and second is not.

any guide to fix this problem?

here is the site
http://models.femalemodels-hq.com
latest wp 2.9.1

Great plugins.thanks

i like this plugins. is very suitable for making web directory. thanks

Is there anyway in adding Alphabetical link on top that jumps to the letter that was clicked on??

Great plugins. That’s is what i’am looking for so far. thanks

Hello and thanks for the great plugin.. Is there a way to add code to where the plugin will ALSO show links to all the posts UNDER each of the categories? Maybe with each post being indented with a ?

Mark

Hi, I was just wondering – is it possible to use two instances of this plugin with different options set for each instance?

Hello, I’ve seen websites using something like What is that?

For those wanting this plugin to display header numbers as well as letters. We have modded the code. Please be aware that this will require CSS for styling. Just change lines 221 – 259 to the following:

LINE: 221
VERSION: 1.3

for ($c = $start_cat; $c < $end_cat; $c++) {

			if ($sep != 'no') {

				if ((strtoupper($cat_list[$c]->cat_name[0]) != $last_char)) {

					$last_char = strtoupper($cat_list[$c]->cat_name[0]);

					if ($sep_header != "") {
						if ($sep == 'header') {
							$tmp_header = str_replace("%L", strtoupper($last_char), $sep_header);
							if (!$first_item) {
								$t_out .= "";
							}
							$t_out .= '<p class="sep">' . stripslashes($tmp_header) . '</p>';
						} 
					} else {
						if ($first_item) {
							$first_item = FALSE;
						} else {
							$t_out .= '<p class="sep">&nbsp;</p>' . "\n";
						}
					}

				}

			}

			$t_out .= '<li><a href="' . get_category_link($cat_list[$c]->cat_ID) . '">' . $cat_list[$c]->cat_name . '</a></li>' . "\n";

			if ($first_item) {
				$first_item = FALSE;
			}

		}

		$t_out .= "\n</div>";

	}

to the admin:

I tried to use your code in the file, but i keep getting an error when i save and load in a browser… can you help?

$tmpcat = get_categories (‘include=’ . $cat_list[$c]->cat_ID);
$numposts = $tmpcat[0]->category_count;

$t_out .= ‘cat_ID) . ‘”>’ .
$cat_list[$c]->cat_name . ‘ (‘ . $numposts . ‘) ‘ . “\n”;

doesn’t work? syntex? missing something? spacing wrong? i give up after 1 hour!

Like Theirs No (. or numbers) and i want it to be able to scroll down to the alpahbet wen i click E it should go to E and so on….

Hi
1st of all Thanks for the wonderful plugin.
next is how do i add post count in front or each category linke
uncategorized(2)

Thanks a lot if u can help me out.

Is there a way to make the title tag the WP category description instead of the category title?

Thanks for sharing this wonderful plugin.

Plugin doesn’t work with 2.8 . Can you solve this issue?

Thank you so much for this. U ROCK

The column behavior did not worked. Is there a problem?

any chance you’re putting out a version where we can select to show all child categories of a parent category like the child_of function? If not, can you tell me how to hack the plugin file. That would be so amazing and I’d really appreciate it. Thanks for all your hard work on your plugins!

Help, I can’t get this plugin in to work. I’am using WP 2.7.1. I’ve tried both ways of usage, by shortcode (HTML edit view) and by direct template tag, but with no luck. All i get is an empty DIV and ULs. Is there any reported issues this plugin not working with other plugins installed?

how do i make it show empty categories, that havent been posted too yet. i want to show all of them, not just the ones that have been posted too

Hi! I have downloaded this plugin and tested it. But in the list, it shows up some categories that I don’t use. How can I hide them? I tried several ways, but I am unable to hide them. Any help would be great, thanks!

Forgot to add, it would also be nice to have an option to “display the # of posts in each category” =P.

After a few failed attempts the plugin installed. Thanks a bunch.

Nice work thanks

thanks! now i can sleep.

This plugin is great! But, when works to wp-2.6.2?

Great plugin. I am wondering if there’s a way to add the RSS link for each category beside the category name?

Hi have tested it in wordpress 2.51 and it works, when you call switch the post format from view to html. THen add this should do the trick.

Hope this helps

Bradd

Hello

I have installed this plugin but it looks like is not working for the latest version of wordpress.

I have tried everything, but my efforts was in vain

Hello, thanks for this great plugin, i will use it on my website just i have one simple problem.

1. Where in code to add the line to see all the categories even they are empty. i tryed update_option(‘ddmcc_hide_empty’, ‘0′); but doesnt work.

2. And also it would be great if you have idea how to change color of empty categories if you add them on list.

Thanks for the answer!

GREAT plugin! Is there any way to adapt it to show all the tags in columns to make a tags archive? There used to be an add on for Ultimate Tag Warrior (link) that used to do the trick, but it was never updated to the newer WP versions… it’d be really cool if this plugin was adaptated for that!

This plugin is great! I too would love to know how to show post count next to the category, everything I have tried so far hasn’t worked.

thanks

Joe
http://www.IMwithJoe.com

This is an extremely handy plugin. Thank you very much. You should consider making this into a widget since many people are going to use this in their sidebar.

Would there be a way to adapt this for tags?

I saw this asked in comment #27, but didn’t find an answer… is there a way to edit the code so that the number of posts per catagory is displayed to the right of the catagory name? A “find/replace” type of answer would be greatly appreciated! Otherwise, this plugin is EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks for offering it! =)

You use this with which page template? It is necessary information.

The comma separated excludes doesn’t work! I did this:
// Set defaults if options do not exist
add_option(‘ddmcc_num_cols’, 2);
add_option(‘ddmcc_sep’, ‘header’);
add_option(‘ddmcc_sep_header’, ‘%L’);
add_option(‘ddmcc_exclude’, ‘1′);

Hi, again would really love if we have an option to display/not display the “cat description” for each category (cuz the SE isn’t too fondly of a page with tons of links =).

I have to You a strange question: In which application You made logo degondesign. Thamk’s for answer.

Cool plugin, i am going to install on my blog now.

i have been looking for something like this for a long time! thanks for this wonderful code

This plugin looks perfect for something my dad’s been asking for on the website I manage for him… but I’m having a problem with it. I installed the plugin and configured options as instructed above, and then created a page containing just <!-- multicolcats -->. When I view the page, the list appears for a split second and then vanishes. I have no idea what would make that happen — can you help? The URL is http://www.familypoet.com/poems-by-category/ – thanks!

Wow! Here’s the script I’ve been looking for in your sitemap generator although it would be nice if the categories can be arranged exactly as they can be in the sitemap generator instead of alphabetically.

Like:
Category A
– Subcategory1
– Subcategory2
Category B
– Subcategory1
– Subcategory2

This is pretty nifty, though. Great work!

we have an working example running on http://www.cmssolutions.nl
Feel free to have a look at the way it is integrated.

Of course I meant to ask the previous question under the multi column Link List Plugin. Sorry.

Thanks for the cool plugin

Would it be difficult to modify this to pull in category descriptions under the category names? This is something of a big shortcoming in WP, IMHO.

Love the plug-in, exactly what I needed. Is their a way to display sub-categories under their parents? thanks

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Matt: Thanks for the new plugin – I’m excited to try it out. You plugin creators are the best!

I, too, have just a few categories, but many links and categories of links. I use a plugin now, but it gives me a very, very long single-column list… and it keeps growing! So a dd-multi-col-links plugin would be really useful. Your site mapping plugin is great!
Many thanks.

Would it be possible to hack this so that it applies to links (i.e. the blogroll) instead of categories? I tend to have more links than categories on my blogs, and it would be helpful to the readers if I could easily put them in columns. Anyways, this is a great plugin!