[Plugin: Category Icons] Widget stopped displaying icons

Hi,

What is the value in your database, in the wp_options table, of the option “igcaticons_before_name” ? If it is set to false, what happens if you set it to 0, instead ?

It’s set to true.

If you set it to 1, instead, it is working ?

Changed it to 1, deleted the widget in the sidebar and added it again. Nothing has changed.

If you go in the icons panel, are you able to view the icons ?

Yeah. Everything concerning the plugins works as intended (as far as I’m using it).

This is uber weird.
Did you try this :

• test the widget in another theme ?
• deactivate, delete it and reinstall the plugin ?

I have it installed on two other blogs and it works just fine. It did work here too for more than a year, until I changed that setting.

Deactivating and reinstalling did nothing.

I’m trying to replicate what the widget does in a different widget (that can handle php), but find it rather hard, cause I’m not a programmer.

Hi,

I’ve written a new tutorial on how to do that simply :
https://www.category-icons.com/2012/09/display-a-list-of-categories-with-description-in-a-widget/

Oddly enough, this actually works! I can’t thank you enough.

Only ONE tiny thing missing, though. I need the categories to display hierarchical and I’ve tried tampering with the code, but couldn’t get it to work. Could you tell me how to do this?

After that I’m most definitely gonna buy you a coffee ??

I think this should do the job :

function bm_caticons_listing() {
	$lis = array();
	// Get the categories
    foreach(get_categories() as $category) {
       $link = '<a href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a>';
       $lis[$category->cat_ID] = '<li>'.get_cat_icon("echo=false&cat=".$category->cat_ID).' '.$category->description.' '.$link.'</li>';
    }

    // order the categories
    $r = array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'hierarchical' => true, 'echo' => 0, 'hide_empty' => 0);
    $depth = 0 ;
    $order = bm_caticons_walk_tree(get_categories( $r ), $depth, $r );
    $order = explode(',',$order);

    $listing_code = '<ul>';
    foreach ($order as $index) {
	    $listing_code .= $lis[$index];
    }
    $listing_code .= '</ul>';
    return $listing_code;
}

Almost, but still not quite there ??

Have a look for yourself: https://letsgetdigital.de/

Everything underneath “Genre” up to the next icon is a child category, but it’s not shown correctly (indented).

Also, I tried to add

'show_count' => 0,

to

// order the categories
    $r = array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'hierarchical' => true, 'echo' => 0, 'hide_empty' => 0);
    $depth = 0 ;
    $order = bm_caticons_walk_tree(get_categories( $r ), $depth, $r );
    $order = explode(',',$order);

but it just won’t show the number count.

I must admit I was very tired yesterday. Here is a much simpler solution :

function bm_caticons_listing() {
    echo '<ul class="theicons">';
	put_cat_icons(wp_list_categories('title_li=&echo=0&show_count=1'),'small=false');
	echo '</ul>';
}

So the complete code should look like this now?

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
add_shortcode('caticons_listing','bm_caticons_listing');
function bm_caticons_listing() {
    echo '<ul class="theicons">';
	put_cat_icons(wp_list_categories('title_li=&echo=0&show_count=1'),'small=false');
	echo '';
}

Cause if that is correct, it now remedies the concerns I had before, but now the categories are shown outside the widget AND there are no icons…

https://letsgetdigital.de/

Ah, sorry, in fact, it should be :

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
add_shortcode('caticons_listing','bm_caticons_listing');
function bm_caticons_listing() {
    $listing_code = '<ul class="theicons">';
    $listing_code .= put_cat_icons(wp_list_categories('title_li=&echo=0&show_count=1'),'small=false&echo=false');
    $listing_code .= '</ul>';
    return $listing_code;
}

But I don’t know why it’s not working for you… Could you execute this query and tell me the result, please ?

SELECT * FROM  wp_options
WHERE  option_name LIKE  'igcaticons%'