This theme component is deprecated and should no longer be used. Its features are now in Discourse Core (see: Bringing popular features to Discourse).
For private category icon customization, refer to this topic.
Summary
Category Icons allows category badge links to have icons next to the category name.
Note that this component also lets you override the category lock icon used to denote private categories.
See also the Tag Icons component (which does the same thing for tags).
Settings
Name
Description
category icon list
The list of categories and their respective icons
svg icons
Add extra icons not included by default
category lock icon
The icon to replace the ‘category lock icon’
To add an icon to a category, enter the details separated by commas like so “slug,icon,color,match”
Colour is in the format #123456, or “categoryColor” to use the default color for the category (same as the Badge color)
If match is “partial” then the slug need only partially match the category-slug, otherwise an exact match is required.
Issues
Does not correctly respect the icon color when using with the bullet category style. In general, though, this shouldn’t be used with the bullet or bar category styles as the UI would be unnecessarily busy.
Development history
Thanks to @rogerco, for adding the “partial” keyword to partially match category slugs (i.e. entering “book,icon,red,partial” would match all category slugs containing “book”).
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This component has had an impact on our forum in an artistic way. I like it.
However there is a problem with category names. I created a category with the name of “Doğa Bilimleri”, but later changed its name to “Bilim” and created a sub-category with the name of “Doğa Bilimleri”.
Before:
After:
I only assigned an icon for the category of “Doğa Bilimleri”, not for “Bilim”.
But the flask icon has been assigned for both “Bilim” and its sub-category “Doğa Bilimleri”.
I cannot also assign an icon to a category whose name I change if I use the new name of it, yet the old name always works. (I solved this one: This is all about “category slug”. If you leave the category slug with the old name, you will experience same pseudo-problem.)
Edit: I figured out why the flask icon is assigned for the main category. It is because both the main category and the sub-category include same word “Bilim”. Even if I give a random name like “abcdefbilimghjk” in the category icon list, it will still assign the icon I choose to the category “Bilim”, since the random name includes the word “bilim”.
Hi Emre, thanks for the report, I’ve now fixed the issue with loose matching of slugs. If you update the theme, it should be resolved, “abcdefbilimghjk” will no longer apply the icon to the “bilim” slug.
First, a big thank you to @pmusaraj for making this great theme-component.
I have configured it on my site, but have two issues:
There seems to be no way I can “attach” any icon to Jadran category
I have tried with various icons, even the ones that are working on other categories with no success.
Configuration is the same as for other categories:
I have an idea, why “Jadran” does not work: I have another category “Jadranje”, which includes first name. I would expect that slug would be checked with exact match (everything between /), right?
Is there a possibility to upload own svg icon and then use it as category icon? I tried to upload it on Category icons upload, but not sure how should I reference it?
Do you have any plans to extend this to the sub-category boxes Penar? Would be awesome to have them everywhere. My site looks great with all these icons now, appreciate this!
This theme component is used alongside the Category Badge Styles theme component
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