Folding Category List (FoCaL) WordPress Plugin
Date: 06/02/2016
Enhanced Folding Category List for WordPress 2.8+
As your blog gets more and more posts you will inevitably create more categories to keep them organised. Eventually your categories will take up more room on your screen and scroll across many pages. I work on one blog which has over 350 categories and with this number the standard WordPress category list is the height of three or four screens - any content below this is lost!
Folding Category List for WordPress is a plug-in that will only show the top level categories and the current sub-categories. This will save a lot of space on your sidebars for other widgets. Additionally, you can animate the menu as either a drop down horizontal menu or an accordion style vertical menu, both with cool jQuery animations.
Main Features
- jQuery Animation: Use Suckerfish or Superfish to animate drop down menus! - js included in plugin, just activate from control panel
categories
category list
category management
category navigation
expanding
focal
folding
sidebar
widget
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Usage of Folding Category List (FoCaL) over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 20 to 14 — down 6 (-30%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 14 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 14 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 14 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 14 | -1 |
| March 2024 | 15 | +0 |
| February 2024 | 15 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 15 | -1 |
| December 2023 | 16 | -1 |
| November 2023 | 17 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 17 | -2 |
| September 2023 | 19 | -1 |
| August 2023 | 20 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 20 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 20 | — |
Sites running Folding Category List (FoCaL)
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