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What is Category Icons ?

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I agree with Ryan Caldwell (performancing.com) :

So the first step in my adventure was to prettify [my pages] a bit. To do this, I downloaded the Category Icons plugin for WordPress. Category Icons allows you to associate a unique image with each of your WordPress categories. By placing a little snippet of code on your category.php theme file, you can then have a big, bold image come up that will make your category pages look better than 90% of the category pages out there.

Or with  JTPratt when he wrote :

It’s a beautiful plugin [...] well documented and supported. Everything is configurable from the options menu, you can use it on your index (home) page, post pages, or even your sidebar! You can do icons only, or text and icons, and it comes with a widget for the sidebar.

The cool thing about the plugin is that it gives you ways to do one or multiple category icons, but also a method for putting icons with your categories in the side bar as well ! I’m always very grateful when a good plugin come along !

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Sources : JTPRATT’s Blogging Mistakes ( here & here ) & Performancing

How to assign an icon to a category

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In WordPress 2.3.X :

Go to Manage > Category Icons and click on Icons tab.

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In WordPress 2.5 :

Go to Settings > Category Icons and click on the Icons tab.

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In WordPress 2.7+ :

Go to Posts > Category Icons and click on the Icons tab.

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Icons tab

If you want to delete the icons of a category and its priority, click on the checkbox in front of it, and then click on the button “Delete Icons and Priority”.

In the “Name” column, click on the name of the category to edit or select its icons.

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In the dropdown menu icon or Small icon, select an icon among the ones you uploaded in the default folder (wp-content/uploads) or the folder you’ve choosen to upload them. And then click on the button to the right to validate.That’s all.