Category Icons WordPress Plugin
The No. 1 plugin to assign icons to categories. Category Icons allows you to associate a unique image with each of your WordPress categories.
This plugin allows you to associate a unique image with each of your WordPress categories in order to prettify your pages a bit. That will make your category pages look better than 90% of the category pages out there.
Everything is configurable from the settings 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. This wonderful plugin :
- displays one or more icons in front of your post title or wherever you want
- displays icons in the sidebar, with or without the category name, with or without the help of the widget
- includes a widget. You can use multiple Category Icons widgets, include or exclude some categories, display only icons (i.e. without the category name)...
- you can make rollover with the icons in the sidebar if
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list
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Post
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Usage of Category Icons over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 28 to 19 — down 9 (-32.1%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 19 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 19 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 19 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 19 | -3 |
| March 2024 | 22 | -1 |
| February 2024 | 23 | -1 |
| January 2024 | 24 | -2 |
| December 2023 | 26 | -2 |
| November 2023 | 28 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 28 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 28 | +0 |
| August 2023 | 28 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 28 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 28 | — |
Themes used with Category Icons
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Newspaper |
| 2 | Enterprise |
| 3 | Zox-news-child |
| 4 | Halleycommunity |
| 5 | Directorypress |
| 6 | Croustinouveau |
| 7 | Rich-photo |
| 8 | Woostore |
| 9 | Photo-blog |
| 10 | Socialize |
| 11 | Socialize-child |
| 12 | Ashe-pro-premium |
| 13 | Zox-news |
| 14 | Mogle |
| 15 | Crafts-and-arts1 |
| 16 | Divi |
| 17 | Divichild |
| 18 | Twentyeleven |
| 19 | Smart-mag |
| 20 | Smart-mag-child |
Sites running Category Icons
All sites in the collection19 examples from the collection. Open any site to see the theme and plugins we found on it.
