If you think that your blog index is too bland, you can spice it up with this Top Categories And Tags plugin.
I noticed that my blog index was a bit bland with the minimal theme that I have, and other than clicking through the index pages, it’s hard to get a feel for my most frequent topics. Top Categories And Tags highlights my hot topics at a glance.

Installation
- Download from the official Bitbucket repo.
- Upload plugin zip through WordPress plugin uploader
- Drop Top Cats Tags widget into any widget zone of your choice.
- Style the display as desired with CSS through
Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS
Styling
The plugin is unopinionated with styling and doesn’t have any CSS out of the box, but uses a classy template. This is the styling that I have used.
.top-cats-tags-container { margin: 1em 0; } .top-cats-tags-container .category { font-size: 1.25em; } .top-cats-tags-container .usage { display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 50px; height: 1em; vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 16px; font-size: .8125em; } .top-cats-tags-container .usage::before { position: absolute; right: 0; content: attr(data-usage) '%'; } .top-cats-tags-container .usage > .block { display: block; height: 100%; background-color: #ececec; } @media screen and (min-width: 960px) { .top-cats-tags-container { display: flex; justify-content: space-between; } }