Taxonomy Dropdown Widget
Creates a dropdown list of non-hierarchical taxonomies as an alternative to the term (tag) cloud. Formerly known as Tag Dropdown Widget.
Overview
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Customer support & learning resources
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Main benefits
Creates dropdown lists
Multiple widget options
Numerous formatting options
Generate dropdowns externally
Supports WordPress 4.2+
About this plugin
Author: Erick Hitter
Categories: Widgets and Sidebars
Version: 2.3.3
Last updated: 01-07-2022
WordPress version: 2.8
Tested up to: 6.0.9
PHP version required: 5.6
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Learning resources: View resources
Overview
The Taxonomy Dropdown Widget plugin for WordPress transforms non-hierarchical taxonomies, like post tags, into dropdown lists, offering an organized alternative to traditional tag clouds. Users can deploy multiple widgets, each customizable with an array of formatting options such as setting the maximum number of terms, ordering terms, and truncating term names. The plugin also includes the flexible `taxonomy_dropdown_widget()` function to facilitate dropdown generation outside the widget framework. Compatible with WordPress 4.2+ due to changes in taxonomy data storage, this plugin was significantly overhauled in version 2.0, previously known as the Tag Dropdown Widget. Users and developers can follow and contribute to its ongoing development on GitHub.
Creates dropdown lists of non-hierarchical taxonomies
- Alternative to term (tag) clouds
- Supports multiple widgets with unique options
Numerous formatting options
- Set maximum numbers of terms
- Customize term order
- Truncate term names
Generate dropdowns outside of the widget
- Use the taxonomy_dropdown_widget() function
- Flexible usage in different parts of the site
Compatibility and development
- Compatible with WordPress 4.2 and later
- Follow and contribute on GitHub
Rating and reviews
rowhouse
28 Oct, 2020
This was a life saver. Exactly, and I mean, exactly what I needed. The client was dead set against a Tag Cloud and after some rigorous searching, I kept coming back to this page.
Thank you Erick. You made it look easy!
This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by rowhouse.
samcaio
08 Jun, 2020
This is great plugin but the problem is that it doe’s not sync with other filters and also reset button is not working.
kaisar10
22 Apr, 2020
Fulfills my requirement.
Qualiweaver
18 Apr, 2019
Looks and works great. Could you just provide a tiny update to help get rid of the PHP 7.3 error message that I can’t remove and which is displayed in the top area of the login page?
FYI, the error message is the following:
Warning: “continue” targeting switch is equivalent to “break”. Did you mean to use “continue 2”? in /home/directory/www/module/wp-content/plugins/tag-dropdown-widget/tag-dropdown-widget.php on line 430.
I could not find any info intelligible enough to fix this by myself. All I did so far is check that WP_DEBUG is set to false in wp-config.php.
Many thanks in advance
This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Qualiweaver.
Bjarni Wark
01 May, 2017
Thanks for your work and making it public, worked a treat.
