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.
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) :
) 