Display Categories Widget
by iteamweb · Admin & Utilities
Display Categories Widget will display Child categories on your sidebar. Can be placed on widget in sidebar.
Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing
Directory rank
Popularity rank over time · lower is better
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “3K+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2015-09-24 · 1,383 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-27 4K+ → 3K+ down after 383 days in band
- 2025-06-09 5K+ → 4K+ down after 331 days in band
- 2024-07-13 6K+ → 5K+ down after 303 days in band
- 2023-09-14 7K+ → 6K+ down after 180 days in band
- 2023-03-18 8K+ → 7K+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Flexible Posts Widget 7K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D -
Collapsing Categories 4K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B - R Recent Posts by Category Widget 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
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Colorful Categories 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B -
Categorized Tag Cloud 1K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
JS Categories List Widget 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/display-categories-widget" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Display Categories Widget — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Display Categories Widget: 3K+ active installs, 4.8★ (25 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/display-categories-widget