by tepelstreel 4.2 (5 reviews)

Featured Category Widget

Name: Featured Category Widget
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: tepelstreel

The Featured Category Widget is basically a Featured Post Widget for a category.

Featured Category Widget ranks #15,634 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, is #1,750 of 8,548 in the Customization category, a 4.2/5 rating from 5 reviews, and was last updated Feb 26, 2016. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.5 (Current: 7.1)

v2.5 Current Version v2.5

Updated 10 years ago Last Update on 26 Feb, 2016

Refreshed 13 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#1,750 of 8,548 in Customization Top 25% by installs No update in over a year

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-122 this week

Active Installs

100+

-31%

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Downloads

29.6K

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Support Resolved

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Rating

84%

Review 4.2 out of 5

4.2 (5 reviews)

Next Milestone 200

Total Progress 27%

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.5
Last Updated: Feb 26, 2016
Requires WP: 2.9+
Tested Up To: 4.5
PHP Version: N/A
Author: tepelstreel

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.2
Reviews: 5
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress bloggers who want to spotlight a specific category on their site rather than just individual featured posts. It solves the problem of highlighting a category's content by displaying thumbnails and customizable excerpts for its posts in a styled widget.

Displays post thumbnail
Falls back to first image
Adjustable thumbnail size
Shows saved excerpt
Shows first three sentences
Shows first twenty words
Individually stylable widget

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Featured Category Widget

The styling of the widget requires some knowledge of css. If you are not familiar with that, try adding padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; to the style section.

Add something like -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; to the widget style. This is not supported by all browsers yet, but should work in almost all of them.

Add something like -moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888; -webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888; box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888; to the widget style to get a nice shadow down right of the container. This is not supported by all browsers yet, but should work in almost all of them.