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Version 1.3 Updated Saturday, September 29th, 2007 at 3:15pm

Multi Column Category List Plugin for WordPress

This plugin generates an alphabetical listing of your WordPress categories in multiple columns. You can choose the number of columns to display, with an option to split up the list of categories by letter. It also supports the use of a custom header to help separate the categories. For example, you could have it say ‘Topics: A’ and then list the topics that start with ‘A’, etc. The category list can easily be added to any post or page with the trigger text, or called directly from a template file. A CSS file is also included for easy style changes.

Related Plugins

There is also a plugin available to generate a multi-column list of your WordPress links.

Download

Latest Release (For WordPress 2.0 through 2.5)

Installation

Download the above file and uncompress
Upload dd-multi-col-cats.php to your plugins directory
Upload dd-multi-col-cats.css to your theme directory
Activate the plugin from the WordPress admin panel
Configure the options under the admin panel: Options - DDMultiColCats

Usage

To use this plugin, simply add the following trigger text to a post or page:

If you prefer, you can also call the function directly from a template file with the following command:

<?php echo ddmcc_generate(); ?>

Change Log

09-29-07 Version 1.3 - Updated for WordPress 2.3. Added ‘Load Default Options’ button. Removed javascript expand code because it was too buggy.
05-16-07 Version 1.2 - Updated for WordPress 2.2.
03-02-07 Version 1.1 - Option added to allow click-to-expand lists. Special thanks to Richard K Miller for submitting the code!
02-03-07 Version 1.0 - First release.

Options

Here are the options available for this plugin under the WordPress admin panel

Number of columns

The number of columns that the categories will be shown in. If you want to show more columns than your layout width will handle, you can adjust the width of each column in the CSS file.

Separate items

Here you can choose to separate the categories by letter, with a custom separation header, or no separation at all.

Separation header

If the separation option is enabled, this is where you enter your separation text, which will be shown above each set of items. You can use %L to show the letter. For example, if you enter Topics: %L then it will show Topics: A, (list of cats), Topics: B, (list of cats), etc…

Excluded categories

This is a comma-separated list of the category IDs you want to exclude from the list.

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63 Comments on “Multi Column Category List Plugin for WordPress”

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60

danielle

10-8-08 2:42AM

thanks! now i can sleep.
59

Thailand News

9-25-08 6:03PM

Good job plugin for wordpress.
58

Daniel

9-22-08 6:14AM

This plugin is great! But, when works to wp-2.6.2?
57

Rade

9-17-08 1:52PM

hello,
does anybody find way to show only child_of some category id?

thanks
56

Brandon

7-28-08 9:45AM

Great plugin. I am wondering if there’s a way to add the RSS link for each category beside the category name?
55

Sadik

7-28-08 12:49AM

Hi Friedns,I have used this plugin in my site and i wanted to create categeory list in Column so i used that trigger text(), and the function directly, but it is nt working.
Can anyone help me to solve this problem …… ??
And one more thing is that to use this plugin,is that necessary to use another plugin XML Site Map Generator to work MCCL plugin ??
54

Bradd -Tattoos To See

7-14-08 8:58PM

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
53

Peter Lurie

6-30-08 1:38AM

Unable to get this to work in 2.5.1

I have tried using the trigger text, and the function directly, but no go.

Weird, because multicollinks DOES work! Any ideas?
52

Not Working

6-26-08 4:13AM

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
51

jeff

6-18-08 11:11AM

This is a cool plugin, I am going to use it to my blog.

Jeff
http://www.ScriptsAhead.com
50

Rade

6-10-08 3:54PM

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!
49

Richard

6-6-08 6:16PM

This plugin sounds like just what I need. I am going to download it and give it a shot. It would be cool if you had a link to sample output of this plugin to illustrate exactly what the end result looks like. Look forward to giving it a shot. Thanks,Richard
48

Fer

5-28-08 4:04PM

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!
47

kitap özetleri

5-25-08 4:19PM

This is a cool plugin and I am using it on my site.
46

Joe

5-14-08 1:31PM

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

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