Featured Images for Categories

Easily add WordPress Featured Images to categories, tags and custom taxonomies.

Get under the hood

Plugin demo

Easily assign a featured image to any category, tag or taxonomy item within your WordPress website and then display the featured images via a widget or shortcode.

Plugin features and support

Featured Images for Categories has been setup to extend the default functionality in WordPress that supports featured images for pages and posts, enabling you to add featured images and custom highlight colours for categories, tags and custom taxonomies.

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Featured image support

Enable featured images for your categories, tags or custom taxonomies

Custom highlight colours

Enable custom highlight colours for your categories, tags or custom taxonomies

Powerful shortcode integration

Complete set of customisable shortcodes to control the display output of your featured images on pages, posts and page builder layouts

Integration with WordPress widgets

Show a gallery of all featured images or a single image from a category, tag or custom taxonomy

Functions available for developers

Genesis framework compatible

Support for the Genesis child theme to enable you to display featured images on archive pages

How it works

1 Assign featured images

Upload featured images against your chosen category, tag or custom taxonomy terms.

2 Display images on your site

Use the customisable shortcodes or WordPress widget to control the display output of your featured images on your website.

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Functionality in detail

Featured Images for Categories has been written to support WordPress’s new taxonomy meta data. The plugin also supports setting featured colours for each any category, tag or taxonomy as well.

Customisable shortcodes to control output

Use the customisable shortcodes to output category, tag or taxonomy images into any WordPress page, post or page builder layout.

The shortcodes have support to show specific categories by ID, turn on / off category names and / or category descriptions and randomise the order of images.

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Easy to use WordPress widgets

The plugin provides two WordPress widgets to customise the output on your site.

The first widget allows you to add a gallery style display of all your categories images, along with options to control the number of columns, the order and the amount of padding around the images. Perfect to display your featured images as a navigation tool instead of just a list of categories! You can also choose to hide categories that do not have images.

The second widget allows you to select a single term (i.e. one category, tag or custom taxonomy term) to be displayed in a widget area.

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