Place content lists in your theme's widget areas

Essential Widgets Pro adds widgets for categories, menus, posts, and tags. Each provides options for choosing what appears and how it is arranged in the widget areas your theme makes available.

Category and tag display settings

Categories

Choose a title, taxonomy, order, number of categories, and number of posts to display. You can also set sorting, choose a feed type, select text or image display, and control whether categories appear as a list.

Tags

Show tags as a cloud or a list, then set their order, sorting, and entry count. Other settings include the unit, separator, search, and text type.

Menus and posts in widget areas

Menus

Display a menu in a widget area to make selected links and site sections available in another part of your layout. The placement depends on the widget areas provided by your theme.

Posts

Display a post list with settings for its title, post type, item count, order, and sorting. Use it to bring selected or recent posts into a visible area of your site.

Other widgets in the Essential Widgets collection

The wider Essential Widgets collection also includes Archives, Authors, and Pages widgets. Archives has settings for title, post limit, archive type, post type, and order. Authors can show a list of authors, post counts, and a selected feed type. Pages provides configurable options for listing important pages.

Install and configure the widgets

Install Essential Widgets Pro in WordPress, add a supported widget to a suitable widget area, and choose its content and display options. Save the settings, review the result on your site, and adjust the available controls to fit your layout.