How to Display All Post Categories in WordPress

Want to easily display all post categories in WordPress with a custom admin page? This code creates a new page under the admin menu called “Category List”. When an administrator clicks on this menu, the list of categories (as defined by the wp_list_categories function) will be displayed on this page. This WordPress customization is especially useful when managing large WordPress sites with many categories.

function ts_my_custom_admin_page() {
    // Define the arguments for wp_list_categories
    $args = array(
        'child_of'            => 0,
        'current_category'    => 0,
        'depth'               => 0,
        'echo'                => 0, // Change to 0 to return the list instead of echoing it
        'exclude'             => '',
        'exclude_tree'        => '',
        'feed'                => '',
        'feed_image'          => '',
        'feed_type'           => '',
        'hide_empty'          => 0,
        'hide_title_if_empty' => false,
        'hierarchical'        => true,
        'order'               => 'ASC',
        'orderby'             => 'name',
        'separator'           => '<br />',
        'show_count'          => 0,
        'show_option_all'     => '',
        'show_option_none'    => __( 'No categories' ),
        'style'               => 'list',
        'taxonomy'            => 'category',
        'title_li'            => __( 'Categories' ),
        'use_desc_for_title'  => 1,
    );

    // Fetch the category list
    $categories = wp_list_categories($args);
    ?>
    <div class="wrap">
        <h1>Category List</h1>
        <pre>
        <?php
        // Print out the categories list
        echo $categories;
        ?>
        </pre>
    </div>
    <?php
}

add_action('admin_menu', function() {
    add_menu_page('Category List', 'Category List', 'manage_options', 'my-custom-category-page', 'ts_my_custom_admin_page');
});