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Display Categories Widget

by iteamweb · Admin & Utilities

Display Categories Widget will display Child categories on your sidebar. Can be placed on widget in sidebar.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
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50 Health · D
Maintenance 3
Rating quality 89
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-45%
Oct 22
Jul 26

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.

tracked estimate
3K–4K ≈3.4K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-09-24 · 1,383 observations

Details

Version
3.1
Last updated
6.7y ago
Added
2012-08-16
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
5.2.24
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-27 4K+ → 3K+ down after 383 days in band
  2. 2025-06-09 5K+ → 4K+ down after 331 days in band
  3. 2024-07-13 6K+ → 5K+ down after 303 days in band
  4. 2023-09-14 7K+ → 6K+ down after 180 days in band
  5. 2023-03-18 8K+ → 7K+ down

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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