Sub Categories Widget

Last Commit	564bf02 (October 19, 2025 12:00 am)
Repository	https://github.com/magicoli/sub-categories-widget
License	AGPLv3 or later

Note: This plugin seems abandoned by it’s original author, so I took over to ensure maintenance if needed.

Sometimes when you divide up your WordPress content into categories it all ends up in sub-categories of one or two main categories that don’t have any content themselves.

With the widget you can add a list of sub-categories even if the parent doesn’t have posts.

You can display and filter sub-categories in various ways:

• Use the parent category as the widget title
• Show post counts in bracket next to the name
• Hide empty sub-categories
• Add a link to the parent category to the widget title
• Show the full sub-category tree so it include sub-sub categories and so on as well
• Display the list as dropdown rather than as links
• Use the first category of the current post as the parent
• Exclude one or more sub-categories from the list
• List the categories in reverse order