How To Pick Most Used Categories In WordPress Without A Plugin?

WordPress is a full features CMS platform and due to based upon PHP, its more functionable. As you know that there are many plugins available for every use of WordPress but plugins can create a very harsh result to your WordPress blog and also can compromise your security so you have to use less plugins and only top developers plugin to keep your blog safe.

So now we have a little WordPress snippet that will pick your most fills categories that have maximum posts in it and make a list of them. You can also limit that how many categories you want to pick and show. Its very easy and good for template designed and a good sidebar widget that will be also valuable and will keep your space clear of new categories that have min posts and useless to view on sidebar or footer.

As we shared in our previous article that How To Pick Most Used Tags In WordPress Without A Plugin? So now without any more preface, pick the snippet and add it where you want to show and customize it with your desire.

Features:

1.) Pure PHP Code.
2.) No Plugin.
3.) Quick To Load.
4.) Work On Every Page.
5.) Will Not Work Inside WP Loop.
6.) Two Piece Of Code.
7.) Fully Customizable.
8.) No Conflicting.
9.) Pick Most Post Category.
10.) Best For Sidebar And Footer

<!-- Start Limited List Of Most Used Categories -->
<?php
function top_categories() {
 $categories= get_categories();
 if (empty($categories))
 return;
 $counts = $categories_links = array();
 foreach ( (array) $categories as $categories) {
 $counts[$categories->name] = $categories->count;
 $categories_links[$categories->name] = get_category_link( $categories->term_id );
 }
 asort($counts);
 $counts = array_reverse( $counts, true );
 $i = 0;
 foreach ( $counts as $categories=> $count ) {
 $i++;
 $categories_link = clean_url($categories_links[$categories]);
 $categories = str_replace(' ', '&nbsp;', wp_specialchars( $categories));
 if($i < 11){
 print "<li><a href=\"$categories_link\">$categories ($count)</a></li>";
 }
 }
}
?>
<ul>
<?php top_categories(); ?>
</ul>
<!-- End Limited List Of Most Used Categories -->

Customization:

Change 11 with your desired no of categories that you want to pic. Always add 1 more as 11 mean that to pick only top 10 categories.

Last Words:

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