Advanced Category Column

Version: 3.5

Version : 3.5

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The Advanced Category Column is a very customizable multi-widget for your sidebar.

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The Advanced Category Column is mainly designed to give your blog a bit more of a newspaper behavior. E.g. The plugin shows the latest posts from all categories with an offset of three posts on your homepage. If there is a post thumbnail, it will be displayed above the headline of the post. No further text will appear. If there is no thumbnail, only the headline and the excerpt of the post will be shown. When the plugin can detect neither the thumbnail nor the excerpt of a post, it will display just the first couple of sentences (or words) of a post. So far that is the same as my Category Column Plugin does also. Not every theme has the possibility to hide certain sidebars on different pages. That’s where the advanced of our plugin comes in. In the ACC you can determine, where exactly the widget is showing and in the settings you can customize the links of your widget(s).

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  • Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
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  • No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found PHP error/s while activating this plugin on our server
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  • No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • Latest PHP 7.2.16 compatible The latest version of the plugin is not compatible with the latest PHP version
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  • Latest WordPress 5.2.4 compatible The latest version of the plugin is not compatible with the latest PHP version
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  • Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
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  • No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
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  • Frequently updated The plugin was not updated at least once in the last 90 days
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  • The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 7.2.16 & WordPress 5.2.4.
  • The database server is MySQL 8.0.15 and the default PHP memory limit is 256MB.
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About Advanced Category Column

Description

The Advanced Category Column is mainly designed to give your blog a bit more of a newspaper behavior. E.g. The plugin shows the latest posts from all categories with an offset of three posts on your homepage. If there is a post thumbnail, it will be displayed above the headline of the post. No further text will appear. If there....

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Performance

Memory Usage

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Page Speed

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Change

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+ 0.04s
/(front page)
- 0.04s
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
- 0.01s
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 0.07s
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 0.23s
/wp-admin/index.php
- 0.02s
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 0.07s
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
- 0.01s
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
- 0.07s
/wp-admin/post-new.php
- 0.01s
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 0.07s
/wp-admin/upload.php
+ 0.22s
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Memory Usage Memory Usage Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data

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+ 89.77KB
/ (front page)
+ 5.92KB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 8.58KB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 16.79KB
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 8.81KB
/wp-admin/index.php
+ 8.72KB
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 8.67KB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 8.71KB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
+ 4.97KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 18.46KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 18.45KB
/wp-admin/upload.php
+ 15.36KB
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PHP Compatibility Issue

  • The plugin has not been properly activated on PHP 7.2.16. It may not work.

WordPress Compatibility Issue

  • The plugin may not be fully compatible with WordPress 5.2.4.

Frequently Updated

  • The plugin has not been updated in the last 90 days.

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Error Log

We found the following errors while activating the plugin. Read more how WP Hive generates this data.

  • [23-Oct-2019 08:54:24 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function create_function() is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/advanced-category-column/class-lib/ACC_WidgetClass.php on line 404
  • [23-Oct-2019 08:54:24 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: css_cache in /wp-content/plugins/advanced-category-column/class-lib/ACC_DynamicCSSClass.php on line 29
  • [23-Oct-2019 08:54:25 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function create_function() is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/advanced-category-column/class-lib/ACC_WidgetClass.php on line 404

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