Icons next to categories

[Arkshine]

What you are looking for is Font Awesome 5 icons, as the description says: Find the Perfect Icon for Your Project in Font Awesome 5 | Font Awesome

Any icon you use in the category icon list setting, you add to svg_icons.
For example:

What you see:

Remember to provide the category slug, not the full name!
You can see the slug in the URL or the category setting.

@psybox

It is very strange that you dont add an icon in the relevant category section (where you assign images!), but in a them plugin. But Im hoping this is just a learning curve as a new user The documentation assumes that you know things like that

I completely understand! This functionality is not part of the core, and a way to customize Discourse is by installing Theme components. This guide might help you to understand better:

Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes

This is a crash course in Discourse theme basics. The target audience is everyone who is not familiar with Discourse themes. If you’ve already used Discourse theme / theme components, this guide is probably not something you need to read. What are themes and theme components? A theme or theme component is a set of files packaged together designed to either modify Discourse visually or to add new features. Let’s start with themes. Themes In general, themes are not supposed to be compatible …