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Category Featured Image

by Katsushi Kawamori

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Description

Set a featured image for post by a category

  • Bulk set the featured image of all the posts, when setting the category featured image.
  • If there are multiple categories, the parent category featured image takes precedence.
  • Can apply a category featured image to the post featured image, when posting.
  • Supports Custom Post Types.

Warning

  • Pressing the “Update” button after “Add New Image” or “Replace Image” under “Edit Category” will change the featured image for all posts in that category.
  • Even if you do not set an image, pressing the “Update” button under “Edit Category” will remove the featured image for all posts in that category.
  • If you do not need this feature, do not use this plugin !
  1. Upload category-featured-image directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  1. Add image to category

    Add image to category

  2. Update image of category

    Update image of category

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Very interesting plugin as i work a lot with categories, I have some suggestions

By emilegutenkauf on November 7, 2025

This is a very interesting plugin as i work a lot with categories. Never find a similar. But I have some suggestions:

1. To have the choice if you're using more than one categorie for a post (For example I use for one Post the categorie: Year; Cycling; and Country). Sometime I put as Image in the Post an Image-Logo from the organisator for a sport event and sometimes a general Logo,

2. To have the choice to keep existing image in the section "set featured image" in the POST-Menu

In General the fact to extend categories with features is welcome

Works great, too bad people cant read because low reviews

By eyevisions on February 17, 2024

I was looking set one image per categorie in all posts. So this is exacly i was looking for, works good.

Deletes your posts individual featured images.

By glenneaton on September 26, 2022

Don't try this plugin without backing up your website first. I set the category to an image, and it then sets every the featured image of every post in that category to the category image. I then deleted the category featured image and every post now has no featured image. Not happy! Now to restore my website.

Bah

By evenue on June 7, 2022

deletes the featured images of the posts in the category and inserts the image in all posts in the category in its place. Useless

destroyed my featured images

By liaris on January 13, 2021

destroyed my featured images

Absolutly Superb Plugin

By srinivas08 on January 5, 2021

As I can see some negative reviews here, thos are bcos those people might be unaware of what the plugin does. It sets category featured image as post featured image. And it did that perfectly. What I suggest is when we add category list using wordpress default category block in pages, If these category images show up there.. Then that would be amazing .

destroyed my featured images

By Artlogika on October 14, 2020

This plugin destroyed all my featured images from all posts, I had to restored database, to have featured images again.

be careful

By vitka (vitkalova) on July 9, 2020

Automatically changed all post featured images to one that you set up for the category.

Works Well - Better than others I've looked at

By bwstandard on May 2, 2020

Thanks for putting this together and supporting it. I'm testing with it for now on a project, will donate if we send to production. This plugin is much simpler than many that I see out there and works with little to no intervention.

Category And Tag Featured Image

By fullexplanationcom on January 27, 2020

VERY GOOD

[2.09] 2025/04/19

  • Fix – Loading the management screen.

2.08

Supported WordPress 6.4.
PHP 8.0 is now required.

2.07

Fixed translation.

2.06

Added a note on the use of this plugin.

2.05

Supported WordPress 5.7.

2.04

Fixed an issue with theme support.

2.03

Fixed an issue with getting category metadata.
Thanks @prionkor !

2.02

Fixed an error when acquiring terms.

2.01

Fixed translation.

2.00

Excluded the exclusion settings.

1.06

Fixed an error when acquiring terms.

1.05

Fixed an error when acquiring terms.
Fixed a problem when featured image was not applied.

1.04

Fixed a problem with new posts.

1.03

Conformed to the WordPress coding standard.

1.02

Add the function to apply or exclude category bulk changes by post.
Supports Custom Post Types.

1.01

Addition of termmeta deletion when uninstalling.

1.00

Initial release.

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