Best category icon plugins for WordPress
The most popular category icon plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Easy Category Icons leads with 600+ active installs, ahead of Category List Icon (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “category icon” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 category icon plugins
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Easy Category IconsThe most installed category icon plugin, with 600+ active installs. Rated 2.6 from 10 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
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Category List Icon10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
All 2 plugins tagged “category icon”
Easy Category Icons
Down in the last 7 days:5#8,271by templatic18 years ago
The Templatic Category Icons plugin adds the ability for your theme to be able to show a category icon in the sidebar and before the category title in …
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 2.6(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Category List Icon
Up in the last 7 days:87#33,899by PluginsPoint11 years ago
Display category icon on list.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day