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Category Icons

Author: Brahim Machkouri

Assigns icons to categories with WordPress 2.3 or higher.

  • displays icon(s) in front of your post title, horizontally or vertically,
  • generates pure html code of the img tag, so it gives you the freedom of doing what you want to with the icons (customizing via CSS or not),
  • generates valid XHTML (and Strict XHTML),
  • prioritizes the icons display (by Oliver Weichhold),
  • displays icons in the categories list, in the sidebar, with or without the category name, with or without the help of the widget (that you must activate to use it),
  • the plugin can display icons not only for categories, but also for pages/subpages too, with the help of another plugin : Page Category Plus,
  • the plugin is compatible with SEO Friendly Images,
  • the plugin is compatible with qTranslate,
  • the plugin is compatible with My Category Order,
  • displays category icons in RSS,
  • the plugin will either show you where to place the little code needed in your themes, or patch them automatically.
  • the last but not least : 14 languages supported : bulgarian (bg_BG) by Kalin Dimitrov, chinese (zh_TW) by Hugo Chen, danish (da_DK) by Henrik Schack, dutch (nl_NL) by Vincent Sparreboom, english, french (fr_FR) by Brahim Machkouri, german (de_DE) by Kristian Bollnow, italian (it_IT) by Gianni Diurno, japanese (ja) by Tenderfeel, russian (ru_RU) by Dimox, slovak (sk) by Samuel Kroslak, spanish (es_ES) by Alberto Baez Valdehita, turkish (tr_TR) by Selim Basak, and ukrainian (uk_UA) by Andrew Senyshyn.

You can have a look to the changelog.