Scott Reilly

<p>Display an image for each category associated with a post.</p>
<p>Notes:</p>
<p>This plugin provides the templates tag <code>c2c_the_category_image()</code> which basically reproduces and extends the functionality of WordPress’s core function <code>the_category()</code> to add the ability to display a category image instead of the category name in the link to the category archive.  With its $image_extensions argument defaulted to <code>""</code>, the plugin could be a drop-in replacement for <code>the_category()</code>.  As is done in <code>the_category()</code>, the image or text for each category is also a link back to that category’s archive.</p>
<p>Related info about the function:</p>
<ul>
<li>If $image_extensions is defined, but no image is found for the category, then nothing is displayed for that category.</li>
<li>$image_extensions can be defined as a space separated list of image extensions.  Files will be checked with the image extensions in the order those extensions were provided; default is ‘png gif jpg’.</li>
<li>The number of category links/images displayed can be limited via the $limit argument</li>
<li>Category image  tags are defined with class=”catimage” for stylesheet manipulation.</li>
<li>The result can be filtered via the filter named “c2c_the_category_image”.</li>
<li>
<p>Must be run inside “the loop”.</p>
<p>c2c_get_category_image_list() is another provided function, which is identical to <code>c2c_the_category_image()</code> except that it doesn’t echo the result.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Links: <a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/category-images/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-images/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="http://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a></p>
<h3>Template Tags</h3>
<p>The plugin provides one optional template tag for use in your theme templates.</p>
<h4>Functions</h4>
<ul>
<li><code><?php function c2c_the_category_image( $seperator='', $parents='', $image_extensions='png gif jpg', $image_dir='/wp-content/images/', $use_name_if_no_image=false, $start_from='begin', $limit=999 ) ?></code></li>
</ul>
<p>This displays the image associated with a post’s categories.</p>
<h4>Arguments</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code>$separator</code><br />
Optional argument.  The text and/or HTML to appear between each of a post’s category images.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>$parents</code><br />
Optional argument.  Allows you to specify if you want ancestor categories of a post’s category to be imaged and linked as well.  Valid options are ‘multiple’, ‘single’, and ”. Default is ”.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>$image_extensions</code><br />
Optional argument.  A space-separated list of image extensions (case insensitive).  If defined as ” then no image is retrieved and the category name is displayed instead (a la <code>the_category()</code>).  Default is ‘png gif jpg’.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>$image_dir</code><br />
Optional argument.  The directory in which the category image(s) reside.  The value should be a location relative to the main URL of your blog.  Default is ‘/wp-content/images/’</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>$use_name_if_no_image</code><br />
Optional argument.  Boolean value (true or false) indicating if the name of the category should be displayed for each category that does not have an associated image.  Default is false.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>$start_from</code><br />
Optional argument.  How to traverse the list of post’s categories; either ‘begin’ or ‘end’.  Default is ‘begin’</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>$limit</code><br />
Optional argument.  The maximum number of category images to be displayed.  Default is 999 (basically, no limit)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>$post_id</code><br />
Optional argument.  The Post ID.  If false, then use the current post (i.e. while in the loop).  Default is false.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>You can opt to treat only certain categories as having a graphical representation by defining an image for them but not creating images for the non-graphically represented categories (as in you can have a subset of categories that dictate what image to be displayed for the post).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>You can take advantage of the $image_extension and/or $image_dir arguments to display different category icons under different contexts, i.e. if showing a $single post, choose to use a ‘png’ image, otherwise use ‘gif’; or locate your images in different directories ‘/wp-content/images/cat-images/small/’ and ‘/wp-content/images/cat-images/large/’ and decide based on context where to get the image(s) from:</p>
<p>// In showing the post singularly, then use a larger image, else use a small image<br />
  if ( is_single() ) {<br />
    c2c_the_category_image(”, ”, ‘gif’, ‘/wp-content/images/cat-images/large/’);<br />
  } else {<br />
    c2c_the_category_image(”, ”, ‘gif’, ‘/wp-content/images/cat-images/small/’);<br />
  }</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Show all images in a comma-separated line:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Show all images in an unordered list:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Assuming one category per post, just show the category image without further HTML markup:</p>
<p>< ?php c2c_the_category_image(' ');  // note the space in the argument, necessary to turn off default </p>
<ul> markups ?></p>
<h3>Filters</h3>
<p>The plugin exposes two filters and one action for hooking.  Typically, customizations utilizing these hooks would be put into your active theme’s functions.php file, or used by another plugin.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>c2c_get_category_image (filter)</h4>
<p>The ‘c2c_get_category_image’ hook allows you to use an alternative approach to safely invoke <code>c2c_get_category_image()</code> in such a way that if the plugin were deactivated or deleted, then your calls to the function won’t cause errors in your site.</p>
<p>Arguments:</p>
<ul>
<li>same as for <code>c2c_get_category_image()</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>Instead of:</p>
<pre><code>    <?php $cat_images = c2c_get_category_image( $cat ); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Do:</p>
<pre><code>    <?php $cat_images = apply_filters( 'c2c_get_category_image', $cat ); ?>
</code></pre>
<h4>c2c_get_the_category_image_list (filter)</h4>
<p>The ‘c2c_get_the_category_image_list’ hook allows you to use an alternative approach to safely invoke <code>c2c_get_the_category_image_list()</code> in such a way that if the plugin were deactivated or deleted, then your calls to the function won’t cause errors in your site.</p>
<p>Arguments:</p>
<ul>
<li>same as for <code>c2c_get_the_category_image_list()</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>Instead of:</p>
<pre><code>    <?php $cat_list = c2c_get_the_category_image_list(); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Do:</p>
<pre><code>    <?php $cat_list = apply_filters( 'c2c_get_the_category_image_list', '' ); ?>
</code></pre>
<h4>c2c_the_category_image (action)</h4>
<p>The ‘c2c_the_category_image’ hook allows you to use an alternative approach to safely invoke <code>c2c_the_category_image()</code> in such a way that if the plugin were deactivated or deleted, then your calls to the function won’t cause errors in your site.</p>
<p>Arguments:</p>
<ul>
<li>same as for <code>c2c_the_category_image()</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>Instead of:</p>
<pre><code>    <?php c2c_the_category_image(); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Do:</p>
<pre><code>    <?php do_action( 'c2c_the_category_image' ); ?>
</code></pre>


Category Image(s)

Display an image for each category associated with a post.

Nick Diego

Outermost

<p>The Icon Block plugin registers a single, easy-to-use block that allows you to add custom SVG icons and graphics to the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg).</p>
<p>The plugin also includes the complete WordPress icon library with 290+ SVG icons.</p>
<h3>Key features</h3>
<ul>
<li>290+ native WordPress icons, including social logos</li>
<li>Use any custom SVG icon or graphic</li>
<li>Insert icons from your Media Library if SVG uploads are supported</li>
<li>Includes handy icon controls (link, rotate, alignment, colors, border, padding, margin, etc.)</li>
<li>Fully compatible with the Site Editor</li>
<li>No block library required 🎉</li>
<li>Built almost entirely with native WordPress components</li>
<li>Will get additional functionality as it’s added to WordPress core</li>
<li>Register your own custom icon library. <a href="https://nickdiego.com/adding-custom-icons-to-the-icon-block/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Stay connected</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ndiego/icon-block" rel="nofollow ugc">View on GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://nickdiego.com/projects/icon-block/" rel="nofollow ugc">Visit plugin project page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/nickmdiego" rel="nofollow ugc">Follow on Twitter</a></li>
</ul>


The Icon Block

Really love this plugin, have a good collection of inbuild svg icons to use and we can use any custom svg icon by simply pasting in the provided popup. Color, flip, linking, alignment, rotating, width control, everything is their that we do with an svg icon! 

The best part, it not load any icon library to display icons, so not create any extra load time on pages, and even if we move the page from a site to another site not having this plugin, it still work, as svg icon code remains :) 

Excellent plugin to use svg icons with lots of features

It's a good Plugin!
I always coded an Icon Block for myself but this one features everything I need.
Just the classes that are applied from my theme json colors where not right.

But this was no effort for me, I just changed the name of my colors (without _ and no camelCase).

Quick and Easy

Simple & useful!


This is one of those lovely plugins, which without bells and whistles simply do, what they promise—in this case to easily insert icons into your posts or pages. 



The plugin uses the wordpress icon library which includes no less than 276 icons in total. As no third party font is used, European users don't need to worry about violation of the GDPR. Instead all icons are provided as scalable svg-icons, hosted from your own website if you use them in your posts and pages. Cool.



You miss an icon or don't like a particular shape? Don't worry. The plugin lets you use your own svg-files (or any free svg-file which you find in the web). And in the unlikely event, this isn't enough, the plugin developer describes in a web page, how you can add your own icon library. How awesome is that?



Can we have more plugins like this, please?


Awesome tool to quickly insert an icon block


Works & feels like a native block, perfect. 


Perfect


This block is what every web designer have been waiting for.



A couple of ideas to enhance it:




Add hover / focus color: especially useful when a link is defined



Add padding support: so we can set 48px for wrapper and a smaller size for the icon itself



Support for block button: maybe WP 6.5 could allow it but not sure




Thanks!


Category Image(s) vs The Icon Block