Actually, I mispoke. On the Instructors widget, I’d just use a standard dropdown category display for that section.

But that still leaves me with unchecking all the instructors for the Subjects widget, no?

(You might see something odd on my site while I mess with this, and I might be experimenting with another plugin as well.)

Just set it to EXCLUDE the categories you want excluded, which, if I understand it, would be Uncategorized.

And it will work.

I think you may have missed the point of “folding.” If you have two top levels, Subject and Instructor, that’s all that will show. Until someone clicks Subject. Then the Subjects will “unfold.” If the click Instructors the subjects will fold back up and the Instructors will “unfold.” That’s the point of this plugin.

Though, if you add thousands of instructors as categories that’s a pretty long sidebar, no matter how you style it!

If you could categorize the Instructors somehow, it could help. Maybe by A, B, C, D, etc, using the first letter of their last name.

Then when you click on D all the D-names would appear.

What it will look like depends on your theme.

Try it.

My site is about online college lectures. The categories now are all subjects — math, english, etc. They all exist as parent categories, except that some have childs as well. So, every category term is listed in the widget (except uncategorized).

You can see this at http://www.virtualprofessors.com

But now I also want to add Instructor to the categories. So, I’m going to have to create two top-level categories, Subject and Instructor. I’ll go into all the Subjects I now have and specify Subject for their parent. Then I will add the instructors as childs under the Instructor parent.

With this structure I don’t know how to use your plugin. I would have to unselect every new instructor (and there will be hundreds, then thousands of them) for it to show just Subjects. Then I will have to do another instance of your widget to do the same with Instructors. This is a lot of work and a huge list to keep up.

In addition, will my Subjects top-level category look like a level in your widget, with all my subjects looking like children? If so, that would look odd.

The fix for this would be to be able to specify in the widget, the category parent to begin with. So, I’d do one widget with Subjects as the starting point, and another with Instructors as the starting point. I’ve seen other plugins do something like this. Can you add that field? It would seem this would be beneficial for more people than me.

If you can’t can you give me a hack I can do?

Or maybe I’m just missing something. :)

The “Folding” category thing is just a way to hide child categories when they are not the focus…

To rearrange the Category Order I use Category Order.