- Two new tabs added : How To (WP 2.8 only) & Support the plugin
What’s new in 2.1.1 ?
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Category Archives: Changelog
What’s new in 2.1 ?
Almost one year without update, but here it is :
- jQuery scripts bugs with WordPress 2.8 resolved.
- The admin interface is successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
- Bug in checkboxes in Options Tab resolved.
- Better visual integration with WordPress 2.7+
- You can now add multiples Category Icons widgets.
- You can include just some categories thank to the new “Include” field in the widget.
- Two options were missing from the start : maximum icon width & maximum icon height.
- You can choose the access type to the database : an access for every icon (a query for each icon) which is the default option, or one access for all the icons (one query for all).
- Added compatiblity with Rob Marsh’s plugins (http://rmarsh.com/) : recent posts, recent comments & similar posts. Just add in output filter : {caticons} to see the first category icon.
- Compatible with WordPress MU 2.8.1
The translations need to be updated. You’ll find all the .po files in the archive if you’re willing to help. Thanks for that. 
Make sure the .pot file creation date is :
POT-Creation-Date: 2009-07-23 12:43+0100
Or download it from the svn repository.
What’s new in 2.0.7 ?
This is a recommended update !
- Compatibility with My Category Order added.
- I’ve added some links to Category Icons’s blog.
- You can now sort a column of the category icons table by clicking its header. If you want to come back to the initial sort state, refresh the page.
- The widget is now embedded in category-icons.php. The file category-icons_widget.php is not needed anymore, so you just have to activate only the plugin itself (the widget is automatically activated when you activate the plugin).
- The check for the field priority is removed. May be it will avoid some issues with MySQL…
- The “Template Code” tab is renamed “Template Tags”…
Update :
- Italian language updated by Gianni. Thank you Gianni !!!
- Turkish language added by Selim Basak.
What’s new in 2.0.6 ?
- Compatibility with qTranslate updated.
- Compatibility with Admin Drop Down Menus added.
- Compatibility with SEO Friendly Images updated : when you used SEO plugin, the ALT and TITLE attributes in the sidebar contained the last post title instead of the category names.
- New language added : Russian (translation by Dimox).
Soon, new languages will be added : swedish, brazilian & maybe portuguese…
What’s new in 2.0.5 ?
I’ve found a plugin : SEO Friendly Images. As I’ve removed the SEO thing since v2.0, I’ve added the compatibility with that plugin, which saves me a lot of time. 
If that plugin is activated and if you want to use it with your icons, just check the option :
What’s new in 2.0.4 ?
- A new parameter to get_cat_icon() function is available : hierarchical. It displays icons in a hierarchical order (horizontally).
- A new language is included : japanese, thanks to Tenderfeel.
- The plugin is now compatible with Lighter Menus plugin : it displays the links Icons, Options, Template Code.
What’s new in 2.0.2 ?
- Dutch language updated.
- You can display the sidebar icons as a block again, to do some basic rollover effect with CSS.
What’s new in 2.0.1 ?
- I’ve put back the link=false default parameter for the put_cat_icons() function (sorry for deleting it in 2.0)
- Italian language updated
What’s new in 2.0 ?
- The plugin generates valid XHTML. (And Strict XHTML if you don’t use the border parameter)
- You have the choice to use CSS or an image to define the margins of the icons in the sidebar.
- The ALT descriptions are removed. They’re empty, now.
- A bug is corrected : when you made a search in a category, the result returned some posts that displayed only one icon, whereas they belong to several categories.
What’s new in 1.9.9 ?
A “bug” is corrected. I forgot to not localize the widget id…
What’s new in 1.9.8 ?
- Now the icons are more “SEO friendly” : the description of the ALT attribute of the icon is the category name
- Two new parameters are available :
align : in order to align the icon when necessary (left, right…),
border : if true, the result will be a border around the icon. If false (by default) no border around it. - A little modification was made in the widget by Jean-Christophe Marie
- If you use a plugin to set category to pages (like page category plus), you can use put_cat_icons() to display icon(s) next to the name of the page in the sidebar.
- Better integration in WordPress : in order to have only one location of Category Icons in WordPress 2.3 and 2.5, it’s now located under the Manage menu
- The ‘Manage’ tab is now replaced by ‘Icons’
- An information is displayed if there’s a new version of the plugin (it can be disabled)
- There’s no more link Select and remove. Instead, there is a checkbox to select the icon(s) to be removed. Now, to edit icons, you must click on the category name, like in WordPress 2.5. So the plugin takes the ‘look & feel’ of WordPress 2.5
- The problem with no select or remove links should be fixed : I use another way to check the user role. (Ivan tested levels to check the role)
- The plugin displays informations in the footer in WordPress 2.5.X :
- current version of Category Icons plugin
- links to the following pages : FAQ, troubleshoot, and contact page
- name of the translator which is linked to his website if he provided an url. (The translator just have to enter these informations in the .po file, under the string translator_name and translator_url) - The category_icons.pot file is updated. The languages are not up to date (except Danish & French), but I’m sure the translators will do their best. (@Translators : I need your help, please. I promise to add strings as less as possible. )
- The language files are now in a subfolder named languages
- A new language is available : Danish, thank to Henrik Schack, and a language file is missing : dutch, but not for too long, as Vincent promised me the file
- Detects if the default upload folder is readable
- The icons are searched recursively
- Minors corrections of the code (no influence on the behaviour of the plugin)
- The widget has now the ‘look & feel’ of WordPress 2.5 and the localization should work correctly now
- The widget has now the same version as the plugin, because of a weird behaviour of WordPress server update information
- The RSS feeds can display the category icons (thanks to Bruce for the idea) :
Example of RSS in Firefox
What’s new in 1.8.6 ?
Added : compatibility with qTranslate plugin.
What’s new in 1.8.5 ?
A “bug” is corrected. Actually, it’s more an oversight than a bug : I left a space that could rise an error (header already sent…bla-bla) in the 1.8.4 version, so some plugins could not work properly, so sorry for that.
It’s strongly recommended to upgrade to this version.
What’s new in 1.8.4 ?
- Chinese (by Hugo Chen) & Italian (by Gianni Diurno) translations added
- Template Code improved a bit
- WordPress 2.5 RC-1 friendly
What’s new in 1.8.3 ?
- German translation updated (thanks Kristian !)
- I forgot to put the spacer.gif in the 1.8.2 version, so, boom, here it is
What’s new in 1.8.2 ?
- New option : size of the space before and/or after the icons in the sidebar.
- French translation is up to date. Other language than english & french needs to be updated. (thanks in advance to the translators)
- A widget is included to display icons in the sidebar, if you prefer to use a widget :
What’s new in 1.8.1 ?
A bug is corrected.
What’s new in 1.8 ?
The plugin is now compatible with WordPress Mu.
What’s new in version 1.7.9 ?
Just a little ‘bug’ corrected.
What’s new in version 1.7.8 ?
- Bulgarian language added. Thanks to Kalin Dimitrov.
- Dutch language added. Thanks to Vincent Sparreboom.
- German language added. Thanks to Kristian Bollnow.
- New functionnality : in the parameters of put_cat_icons() function, if you put icons_only=true, then only the icons will be displayed in the sidebar, instead of the icon AND the category name.
