Category Icons Required To Create Category

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  • December 18, 2014 at 8:34 pm #24919

    Kenny Eliason
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    Hello, currently my site only allows me to create a directory category if I attach a category icon.

    Is there a setting or method that allows me to disable this requirement.

    Thanks for any help!

    December 18, 2014 at 8:35 pm #24920

    Simone
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    Hi again, no, sorry, this is not optional

    December 18, 2014 at 8:45 pm #24921

    Kenny Eliason
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    Gotcha, Thanks for the help!

    April 2, 2015 at 9:10 am #35901

    brandtastic
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    Why isn’t this optional? I need to add a lot of categories in bulk, but the category icon keeps slowing me up. I’m not using them anywhere in my theme, so I don’t want to have to add one. Is there no way of unhooking this?

    May 4, 2015 at 3:40 pm #38607

    pix3x
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    Hello! Same issue here. I bulk imported 500 categories without problems. Is there a quick way to assign any default icon to all of them? Any ideas? Maybe PhpMyAdmin would help?

    May 4, 2015 at 3:52 pm #38610

    Simone
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    Hi, this is not an easy thing, category icons are linked together using the wp_postmeta table in the database, with the key “_wp_attached_file”, linked to the ID of the category (and the path to the file)

    May 4, 2015 at 4:12 pm #38614

    pix3x
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    Thank you for clarification. I’ve noticed that my categories without any icon still show a standard “Google” style red icon on the map. I am ok with that. Will I get any issues corrupting the GD or database if I do not assign any icon?

    May 4, 2015 at 4:17 pm #38618

    Simone
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    Hmm… no you shouldn’t, as long as it work 🙂 You could check with firebug or similar if you got some 404 error or something similar

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