Many times while you are building an extensive website on wordpress, the need arises to use multiple columns for the category listing. For improving the layout & navigation. When you have hundreds of category it is too hard for the reader to scroll and go through all of them.
New WordPress custom menu system can help you show some of your main categories in your sidebar. But somewhere, however, you are going to want a page that lists ALL of your categories in a way that doesn’t have to be a long list, but nicely laid out.
A Plugin can do it for you
The answer for this problem is to divide your categories up into columns, and the Multi-Column Taxonomy List plugin will help you to do that.
After installing and activating the plugin, you can simply place the shortcode [mctl] into a page, and all of your categories will be listed for you there.
In case you want to place the categories laid out that well directly on your homepage, you can also just choose that page to be your homepage, or you can add the following into your homepage file wherever you’d like the categories to show up:
<?php multi_column_tax_list(); ?>
This is what it looks like out of the box.
if you want five columns instead of three, Include parameters in the shortcode. Then use the following shortcode:
[mctl columns="5"]
