wp-category-dropdown

This WordPress plugins gives you a shortcode and a widget to display dynamic parent and child category dropdown using Ajax.

Installation

Download the zip file and upload it to your WordPress plugins. Activate the plugin. You can use the shortocde [wpcd_child_categories_dropdown] to create the dropdown.

Here are the options available with the shortcode:

• orderby
• order
• showcount
• hierarchical
• hide_empty
• exclude
• include
• default_option_text (This is the text that is shown as the default option for the parent dropdown)
• default_option_sub (This is the text that is shown as the default option for the child category dropdown)
• category

You can read more about the options here - https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_dropdown_categories/

You can also use a widget to display the dropdown on the sidebar.

Please note that the shortcode and the widget cannot be used on the same page.