Looking for plugin: Show latest categories

I’ll write some code for it

Here you go. It is just some code for now, you can stick it in your theme files somewhere. I will probably turn it into a plugin as well soon.

Since categories do not really have a creation date, it sorts by their ID, which has the same effect. Just set $num_cats to choose how many to display, and you can customize the output generation – it is currently just displaying a list.

<?php

global $wpdb;
$tp = $wpdb->prefix;

$num_cats = 5;

$cats = (array)$wpdb->get_results("
	SELECT {$tp}terms.term_id as id, {$tp}terms.name as name
	FROM {$tp}terms, {$tp}term_taxonomy
	WHERE {$tp}terms.term_id = {$tp}term_taxonomy.term_id
	AND {$tp}term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'category'
	ORDER BY {$tp}terms.term_id DESC
	LIMIT $num_cats
"); 

if (count($cats > 0)) {
	echo '<p>Last ' . $num_cats . ' categories created:</p>';
	echo '<ul>';
	foreach ($cats as $c) {
		echo '<li><a href="' . get_category_link($c->id) . '">' . htmlspecialchars($c->name) . '</a></li>';
	}
	echo '</ul>';
}

?>

Thanks Dagon Design, I will try it and see if it works ??

Appreciate your help!

Let me know how it goes ??

Here it is in plugin form:

https://www.dagondesign.com/articles/recent-categories-plugin-for-wordpress/

Thanks Dagon Design, the code was fine. It worked just the way I wanted it.