JS Categories List Widget for WordPress Plugin Directory
JS Categories List Widget is a WordPress app, with a 4.8 average rating from 15 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
JS Categories List Widget is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Miguel Useche. With a rating of 4.8★ from 15 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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JS Categories List Widget is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 15 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.8★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Miguel Useche — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (15) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How JS Categories List Widget works
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This plugin provides a widget and a filter to display a collapsible list of categories in your sidebar or posts by using vanilla Javascript.
Features
Support for Gutenberg blocks. Add it to any FSE theme or Gutenberg compatible theme.
Display a collapsed list of your archives to reduce space.
Uses vanilla JS to add effects and to be compatible with all browsers.
Select the symbol for expanding/collapsing categories
Select categories to exclude, so it shows only the categories you want.
Autoexpand selected category (including it parent or child).
Support for multiple instances.
Simple layout configuration
Shortcode support [JsCategoriesList]
Translated to Spanish, Italian Russian, Slovak, Czech.
Compatible with most JS cache and minify plugins.
And more to come…
Configuration
Title: title of the widget.
Trigger Symbol: characters to be displayed as a bullet.
Symbol position: where to put the expand/collapse symbol.
Effect: JS’s effect to use.
Order by: display order of categories.
Expand: if list should be expanded or callapsed by default.
Show number of posts: display how many post are published in the category.
Show empty categories: display categories with no posts.
Open links in a new page: render category links with target=”_blank”.
Categories to include: categories to be included from the list.
Categories to exclude: categories to be excluded from the list.
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is JS Categories List Widget?
JS Categories List Widget is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.8-star rating from 15 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Miguel Useche.