Title: Easy Category Icons
Author: templatic1
Published: <strong>June 2, 2016</strong>
Last modified: October 27, 2018

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
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# Easy Category Icons

 By [templatic1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/templatic1/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/templatic-categoryicons.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/templatic-categoryicons/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/templatic-categoryicons/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/templatic-categoryicons/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/templatic-categoryicons/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/templatic-categoryicons/)

## Description

The [Templatic](http://templatic.com/) Category Icons plugin adds the ability for
your theme to be able to show a category icon in the sidebar and before the category
title in your WordPress website.

After installing and activating the plugin, create one or more categories and upload
images or icon for the particular category.

_See screenshot-1 , screenshot-2 and screenshot-3 images for what this might look
like in your category edit screen_

After you have added category icon you will see it on category page before category
title and before the title in categories widget. See the [Easy Category Icons](https://templatic.com/news/free-wordpress-category-icon-plugin-released/)
for further Information.

_See screenshot-4 image for what this might look like in your category page_

Last week, our team created few free plugins and this is one them. Many users show
post categories in the sidebar. Often, they are just 5-15 categories. Would not 
it be cool to show a nice little icon beside the category name that goes with it?

This little WordPress Category Icon plugin does exactly that. With this plugin, 
you will be able to show a category icon in the sidebar and before the category 
title in your WordPress website.

And best of all, this is an absolutely free plugin.

How to use this WordPress Category Icon plugin?

 1. Download this Free Post Badges Plugin from below link.
 2. Connect to your WordPress dashboard (wp-admin) and navigate to Plugins > Add New
    Plugin > Upload Plugin > Now upload the downloaded (Templatic-CategoryIcons.zip)
    file > Click on Install Now
 3. Once you install this plugin successfully, click on Activate Plugin.
 4. To set the Category Icons to your added categories navigate to wp-admin > Post 
    > Categories > here you will see Category Icons section
 5. Here you can assign category icons or Font awesome tags to your category as per
    your choice and save the settings.

## Screenshots

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## Installation

**Installation**

 1. Upload the entire ‘Templatic-CategoryIcons’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’
    directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  Fontawesome icon js included twice

You can remove it by adding

”
 remove_action(‘wp_head’,’templ_load_font_icon’); remove_action(‘admin_head’,’
templ_load_font_icon’);

“

in theme functions.php file

  How can I use custom other than on category page or from category widget?

Yes. You can use function ” templ_get_the_icon ” where you have to pass the argument

templ_get_the_icon(array(‘size’=> ‘small’),’taxonomy’,term_id);

Which of the image you want to display (small,thumbnail,etc.) which has generated
by WordPress add_image size , taxonomy is the taxonomy slug and the last parameter
is category id.

It will return you an array which has fontawesome icon and category image

  Can I include this plugin in my theme for distribution?

Yes. Source credits for the plugin should remain intact, per GPL requirements.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/662d8f2dba554d207670b3c9954e2746dc017f71c30bc4725cd73b0df9f7f602?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesn’t work. Not supported.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-not-supported-2/)󠁿

 [Ivaylo Tinchev](https://profiles.wordpress.org/itinchev/) March 8, 2023

Should have been taken down from the repository long time ago.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b6200b18e217e487f754970b9e3c1f66663edba3634030703c2f7ed7079f0067?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[NOT WORKING](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-3249/)󠁿

 [leolamanna](https://profiles.wordpress.org/leolamanna/) May 6, 2020

No icons on product category widget

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b33fd34c6c542d65f3a14cf56e6c7ffb70929c7fd33e7cc33b60d203c4775866?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesnt work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-2277/)󠁿

 [Rijo Abraham](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hdalive/) October 29, 2019

It doesn’t show on posts or in category archives. It just shows in Admin dashboard
which is useless when the icon doesn’t show on your pages.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3e0dbbf459ab0de83f744d975581d93a75abdf90bc26c6ac6248ed9442ff6f7e?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Free support not available](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/free-support-not-available/)󠁿

 [panjianom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pije76/) July 21, 2019

Free support not available

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1c487a7d7c6b4e492f69a55f103fa95bfcf57ef0afdf53c8a5f11e134f4d6d24?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Good Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-plugin-3524/)󠁿

 [Mohammad Amin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mohammadamindeldari/) April 21, 
2019

Good Plugin But I Find Bug. if Turn On Wordpress Debug See notice In Category Widgets
in Line 399 and 400 thanks

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/eea72fdcd533e80f3f1ef84977cc14dd5a2fb6ecf442df31b8da413b7f25a9ec?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Does not work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-1064/)󠁿

 [alphaandomega](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alphaandomega/) April 16, 2019

Wp 5.1.1 using Creativo theme and WP Bakery simple circular images used as badges
to represent different divisions of clients company…Images load and show in category
list but nothing shows in posts or latest news grid.

 [ Read all 10 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/templatic-categoryicons/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Easy Category Icons” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ templatic1 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/templatic1/)
 *   [ rbhavesh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rbhavesh/)

[Translate “Easy Category Icons” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/templatic-categoryicons)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/templatic-categoryicons/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/templatic-categoryicons/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/templatic-categoryicons/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/templatic-categoryicons/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.1**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **600+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.0.25**
 * Tags
 * [category icon](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category-icon/)[category title](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category-title/)
   [templatic](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/templatic/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/templatic-categoryicons/advanced/)

## Ratings

 2.6 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ templatic1 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/templatic1/)
 *   [ rbhavesh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rbhavesh/)

## Support

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