# Category Icons **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683 **Category:** Theme component **Tags:** official, deprecated, category-icons **Created:** [December 19, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683 "2018-12-19T16:22:44Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 57
### Author: ![rogerco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rogerco/32/161338_2.png) [@rogerco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rogerco) #### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683/57 "2020-01-13T10:44:56Z")
> [@pmusaraj](#): > > changing the slug for one of the two categories that have the same slug? Yep, that seems to be the way to go given that sub-category slugs in different parent categories do not not have to be unique. Having said that, it can actually be turned to advantage as a feature. For example if you have group based categories many of which have a help and announcement forums as subcategories then you can easily set up a common help icon for all the help categories and a common icon for all announcement categories using just two entries. And any new subcategories with the help tag would pick up the icon automatically. For our use I have taken this one stage further and actually made it an option for a partial match on the slug so that an entry “help,question-mark,#000080,false” would match “sw-help” and “help-forum” and “helpdesk”. The “false” additional item on the end of the entry tells it not to enforce an exact match. I also have the option to specify the colour as “catcol” in which case the icon will pick up the category colour instead of using a separate specified one. Two suggestions for inclusion in an update for you. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683)._