<?php get_cat_icon(); ?>

<div class="left_side">
<?php
if (have_posts()) :
  while (have_posts()) : the_post();
    if (function_exists('get_cat_icon'))
      get_cat_icon('fit_width=32&fit_height=20&small=true&class=myicons');
?>

.myicons {
margin : 0 3px 0px 0;
}

<?php get_cat_icon('cat=5&fit_width=100&height=100&expand=true'); ?>

32 thoughts on “Function : get_cat_icon()”

1. Disculpen la molestia, pero yo tengo problemas con el category icons, cuando aparece el icono (que es de 16×16) le agrega un espacio blanco a la derecha y abajo, haciendo que el espacio mida 41×41, por que pasa eso?

   gracias

2. Look in your CSS file : .post img.

3. I want to remove the icon before post title.
   how can i do?

4. Just look for the little code get_cat_icon() in your php page, then cut and paste it wherever you want.

5. Thanks sir !!!
   Great plugin & great tip

6. I am missing something? What file names do i need to name the images? And they should be in uploads as stated right? Ive tried to name by category name, category id, and variations and no luck.

   Basically i just want to be able to put a call to in my category template to display a category image unique to it, i.e i name the images cat-1 and category 1 shows that image.

   I know this plugin offers more features, but im just trying to get that down, and ended up trying to use this for the job, any help would be much appreciated.

7. Have you read this :
   http://www.category-icons.com/2008/03/how-to-display-icons-in-posts/
   You could also read some how-to :
   http://www.category-icons.com/category/howto/

   To resume the process : once you’ve uploaded your images (icons), you MUST assign an icon to a category. Then, with the help of Template Tag, you can insert the get_cat_icon() function in your template files.
   The icons will be displayed automatically.

   Now, if you don’t want to use the get_cat_icon() for general purpose (automatically), you can use the parameter ‘cat’ to display the icon of a particular category. For example, if you want to display the icon of the category numbered 5, do this :
   get_cat_icon(‘cat=5′);

   Thanks to read the documentation and the how-to.

8. I’ve quite a situation using this plugin with a new template.
   The icons are mostly black and most of the template is white or white-like, with the exception of the sidebar, that is black.
   So I’m wondering if there is a way to get the icons in a different way. Let’s say, adding a parameter that appen a scring to the name:
   get_cat_icon(’suffix=_white′);

   I know that this parameter doesn’t exists, but is just to give an idea of my needs.
   I could also play with CSS, but I don’t think would be a clever solution.

9. It’s doable with jQuery. Here is a good start :
   http://www.category-icons.com/2008/05/how-to-make-rollovers-with-jquery/
   Sorry, I don’t have the time to help you on this for now : I’m VERY VERY busy. (I even did not update neither the site nor the plugin for a while… )

10. Hi there,
    Congratulations for your plugin ! I have a problem while using it :
    I have an error message on the admin page ” Erreur dans l’extension ‘Category Icons’ : le répertoire de téléversement (upload) par défaut n’est pas accessible. Veuillez en créer un, ou alors changer les droits du répertoire.” which (partially) means “upload folder is not accessible, please create one or change permissions”
    whereas I have the “uploads” folder created and it already has a 755 permission
    Can you please help me ?
    thxs a lot !

11. Salut amo. Il faudrait que tu mettes les droits en 777 d’abord, histoire de voir que ton problème ne vienne pas des permissions… Et vérifie bien que dans Réglages > Divers, il y ait bien wp-content/uploads.
    If none of that works, please have a look to the troubleshooting page.

12. This does not work for me on a category page. Instead of displaying the current category it displays the first category from the first post on the category page. I am displaying title and description for the current category and want the current icon as well. Is this a bug or am I missing a setting? Thanks.

13. http://www.category-icons.com/2009/06/display-an-icon-in-category-page/

14. Hi everyone, I absolutely love the get_cat_icon() plugin! I use it all of the time, however I was never really happy with the quality of the image resizing since it relied on the browser to scale the image. What I have done is modified the plugin a bit to utilize awesome Tim Thumb PHP script to automatically resize the images. Check out mywebsite to see how clean the images look: http://interiordesigndeals.com

    To make the category icons plugin work with Tim Thumb, follow these steps:

    1.) Install Tim Thumb by following these instrucitons: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/
    2.) Resizing an image is super easy, follow this syntax:
    2.) Modify the category_icons.php file (around line 237), to look something like this: $cat_icons .= ‘src=”/scripts/timthumb.php?src=’.$url.’&h=’ . $h . ‘&w=’ . $w . ‘&zc=0″ alt=”" ‘.$title.’ />’.$urlend.$p['suffix']; This will take in the category_icons fit_width and fit_height variables and use it to resize your image to the proper heigth/width.

    Disclaimer: I’m not a plugin developer, so I hope that my code modification will not break the plugin. Please feel free to comment back if you find a better way to accomplish the same thing.

    Have fun!

    - Bill

15. Good job ! Thanks ! I’ll have a deep look at this. That’s a very good render.

16. This plugin seems to work for blogging categories in word press. Is it possible to make it work for a Page in wordpress too? Such as an icon for the page?

17. This plugin does not SEEM to work : it DOES work for the categories !
    It was possible to make it works with pages : http://www.category-icons.com/2008/03/add-icon-to-pages-subpages/, but since the author of the plugin “Page Category Plus” removed it from his website, it’s not possible anymore, unless I try to add it in a new version of the plugin. Maybe you wanted this : http://www.category-icons.com/2009/06/display-an-icon-in-category-page/ ?

18. Thanks for the great plugin. I’m not sure this functionality isn’t in the WordPress core, but I’m glad I found this plugin.

    I believe that the default for the small (icons) is true, not false. ie. by default the function returns small icons not the large ones.

    I also would like to request an enhancement. It would be great to be able to specify an icon set for pages categories as well. That way our pages could have small icons instead of bullets in the sidebar and if we want we could place the larger icons on the individual pages themselves.

19. @Tim
    Hi. Thanks. I’ll look at this small/normal icon size when I’ll have some spare time. I can’t add new feature right now : I have a job (and a life ) that takes me a lot of time.

20. @Tim : you’re right. I’ve corrected the post. Thanks !!!

21. What variation of the function get_cat_icon do I need to return just the url of the large icon?

    I am using this in my css file for a header image, so the only thing I want returned is the plain link to the image with no a href= etc.. just the url of the large image….

    Basically I created a basic function that determines if there is a cat icon, and if so then that url is displayed in my php css file.

    example:
    background:#000000 url() no-repeat scroll center 0;

    you can see that custom_header_background needs to return the url of the large image only.

    I will try to paste in my function here, though I doubt it will take.
    Basically it says look for the cat image and if it’s there display that, else display my default header image.

    function custom_header_background() {if (function_exists(‘get_cat_icon’)) { get_cat_icon(‘small=false&link=false’); }
    else {echo standard_header_image();
    }
    }

    So far the function works, but it’s returning way to much information for my purposes.

    I did look through the documentation but did not see the ability to return just the url string.

    thank you

22. argghhh my css example above did not take, lets try that one more time

    background:#000000 url() no-repeat scroll center 0;

23. ok i give up….

    basically I am just using a php echo custom_header_background statement in my css php file there. Not going to try and paste it again, as both tries did not work. I’m sure you get the idea though.

24. @shawn

    Somewhere in your function, put this :
    $caticon_url = extract_caticonsurl(get_cat_icon('echo=false'));

    and add this function :
    function extract_caticonsurl($string) {
$result = '';
if (preg_match_all('/<img\s+.*?src=[\"\']?([^\"\' >]*)[\"\']?[^>]*>/i', $string, $correspondances, PREG_SET_ORDER)) {
$result = $correspondances[0][1];
}
return $result;
}

25. Hello. Looking for some support on something.

    What I am trying to do is display a list of categories with their description and icon. The problem is, the icon code is only applying one image/link to every category, how can I fix this?

    Code:

    <?php $categories = get_categories('number=10');
    foreach ($categories as $cat) {
    echo "term_id ) . “\”>”. $cat->cat_name . ““. $cat->description . “” . get_cat_icon();
    } ?>

    Another problem is I am getting a “1″ below the image. :/

    Thanks,
    Tom.

26. @Tom

    Hi. Did you read this : http://www.category-icons.com/2009/08/how-to-use-category-icons-tags-in-a-script/ ?

27. Hi, i wnat to display of the category in front of the icon, but in the middle of the icon, not in the bottom, Thanks

28. Hi–I’m using a non framework theme (Studiopress’s Genesis, plus a child theme). What modifications would I need to make to implement this into my theme?

29. @Tatiana

    Did you try the Category Icons Lite plugin ?

    Or else, if you want to use the Genesis theme, did you use the template tag tab to view where you should paste the get_cat_icon() tag ?

30. Hi !

    How to… not show one parent categorie ?
    Say that I have :

    Cat1
    - Sub1
    - Sub2
    Cat2
    - Sub1
    - Sub2

    How can I only show only Cat 2 (and Sub) ? If you put cat=2 it only show the Cat2 icons on every page, I tried cat=-1 but same thing. I want this to be automatic as usual, but not showing some categories…

31. Second comment, just had an idea. Is it possible to show icon just from one priority ? Because the one I want to show are “0″ and those I don’t are “1″… so if I can exclude 1…

32. Hi, I have 2 questions:

    1- Can I exclude some categories with a parameter?

    2- Can I use the parameter “cat=” to include more than one category?

    Thanks