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Category Shortcode
I just slapped together a very quick plugin for a teacher’s blog that adds a [category] shortcode to WordPress. Basically, it just passes through all of the attributes of the shortcode as parameters to wp_list_categories(), allowing the user to embed a list of blog categories in any page, post or widget. This feels like something that should already exist (but I couldn’t find it).
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Annoyingly, it seems that there is another plugin named Category Shortcode… which I must have tried and found lacking. (My shortcode makes no attempt to protect the user from themselves — and provides access to the entire wp_list_categories() method.) Annoying, mostly because WordPress wants to update my plugin to the other plugin. I feel like there may be a weak link in the update architecture…