The Plugin
The Category Column was mainly designed to give our page a bit more of a newspaper behaviour. It shows the latest posts from all categories with an offset of three posts (which are in the main column) on our homepage.
Not every theme seems to have the possibility to hide sidebars or defines the styles of links site wide. That’s what makes the difference in the “advanced” plugin. You can now style the links of the widgets and define, where the widget is showing and where not.
History
As the plugin was designed especially for the needs of a user of the Category Column Plugin; the first versions were very limited. It should work now on all sites without any problems. It is tested up to WP 3.4.
Current Version
The current version is 2.1 and it has Dutch and German language packs. Textareas are resizable
Change Log
2.1 Bugfix
2.0 Minor bugfixes, check all function added
1.5 The textareas are now resizable and the input fields got smaller
1.2 Bug with empty stylesheet on update fixed
1.1 Bugfix concerning title slugs; settings accessible from plugin page now
1.0 Stable version with Dutch and German language files
0.5 Public Beta and initial release
0.3 Open Beta
Installation
To install the Category Column Plugin simply download it here, unzip the file and upload the folder named “advanced-category-column” into the /wp-content/plugins folder of your blog.
Once you have done that, simply activate “Advanced Category Column” in your plugin panel and customize the instances of your widgets, when you place them into your sidebars. Go to the options panel to change the style of the hyperlinks in the widgets.
Screenshots
The working widget with WP 3.1 and the Atahualpa theme from bytes for all.
Once the widget is in one of the sidebars, you start the configuration.
The links have to be styled on the options page
Donation
If you use the plugin and like it, we appreciate a donation. If you find the plugin useful and like it very much, we appreciate your feedback even more.
