How to assign an icon to a category

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.

No Select or Remove links in Manage tab

Update : since v1.9.8, there are no more select and remove links : in the icons tab, you click on the category name to select icons, and you check the boxes on the left to select which icons you want to remove.

To manage icons, you need to be at least to level 4 (editor). So if you have no link in action, check your role, in Users > Authors & Users. Change your role to administrator in Authors & Users, even if you’re administrator, and then click on the button to update your role :

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