Original Author: Peter van der Does
Original Author URI: http://blog.avirtualhome.com/
Original Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extended-categories-widget/
Choose the Blog ID to feature its categories, by default it will use Donncha’s Sitewide Tags Pages(‘tags_blog_id’) if installed. Blog_id is matched against existing public blogs. Widget Control Options:
- How many Sitewide Extended Categories Widgets would you like? 1-10
- Blog ID
- Title
- Show post counts
- Show hierarchy
- Hide empty categories
- Sort by ID, name, or count
- Display style: list or dropdown
- Include All Sitewide Categories, or
- Include These Sitewide Categories
Notes:
This widget uses a “switch_to_blog”–>”restore_current_blog” to retrieve categories from the Tags blog(or other blog).