Easy Category Icons
The Templatic Category Icons plugin adds the ability for your theme to be able to show a category icon in the sidebar and before the category title in …
The facts
- Rating
- 2.6★ from 10
- Active installs
- 600+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 27 Oct 2018
- Added
- Jun 2016
- Requires WP
- 3.5
- Tested up to
- WP 5.0.27
- Downloads
- 20,652
Our analysis
AI-assistedEasy Category Icons is a WordPress plugin that enables you to display icons alongside category titles in your website's sidebar. After installation, you can create categories and upload images or icons for each one, which will then appear before the category title in both the category page and the categories widget.
This plugin is suitable for users who want to enhance the visual appeal of their category listings, particularly those with a limited number of categories to display. It is a free tool that can be easily installed and configured through the WordPress dashboard.
Best for: This plugin suits WordPress users looking to visually enhance their category listings.
What it does well
- ✓Allows display of icons next to category titles
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Simple installation and activation process
- ✓Customisable with uploaded images or Font Awesome tags
Where it falls short
- •Has a low rating of 2.6 out of 5
- •Last updated in October 2018
- •Limited information on support or updates
Verdict
Easy Category Icons provides a straightforward way to add icons to categories, but its low rating and lack of recent updates may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
templatic1's own description of Easy Category Icons, lightly tidied.
The Templatic Category Icons plugin adds the ability for your theme to be able to show a category icon in the sidebar and before the category title in your WordPress website.
After installing and activating the plugin, create one or more categories and upload images or icon for the particular category.
See screenshot-1 , screenshot-2 and screenshot-3 images for what this might look like in your category edit screen
After you have added category icon you will see it on category page before category title and before the title in categories widget. See the Easy Category Icons for further Information.
See screenshot-4 image for what this might look like in your category page
Last week, our team created few free plugins and this is one them. Many users show post categories in the sidebar. Often, they are just 5-15 categories. Would not it be cool to show a nice little icon beside the category name that goes with it?
This little WordPress Category Icon plugin does exactly that. With this plugin, you will be able to show a category icon in the sidebar and before the category title in your WordPress website.
And best of all, this is an absolutely free plugin.
How to use this WordPress Category Icon plugin?
- Download this Free Post Badges Plugin from below link.
- Connect to your WordPress dashboard (wp-admin) and navigate to Plugins > Add New Plugin > Upload Plugin > Now upload the downloaded (Templatic-CategoryIcons.zip) file > Click on Install Now
- Once you install this plugin successfully, click on Activate Plugin.
- To set the Category Icons to your added categories navigate to wp-admin > Post > Categories > here you will see Category Icons section
- Here you can assign category icons or Font awesome tags to your category as per your choice and save the settings.