[Plugin: Category Icons] Widget stopped displaying icons

Ok, the categories are back in the widget, but the icons are still missing.

Execute the query in phpmyadmin? Did that, and this is the result:

#1046 - No database selected

Did I do that correct?

Sorry, here are the results:

wp_options.pdf

What if you do that :

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'),'echo=false');
    $listing_code .= '</ul>';
    return $listing_code;
}

Nope, no difference from the code before, still no icons, but everything else is correct.

I’ve gone back and tried the other examples from you again, and only the first two tries (the tutorial and the one after that) show the icons.

Couldn’t you maybe try to improve on those two, by just adding the postcount and the hierarchy?

Delete all the code you used (the above code) in functions.php. This is a totally new code. I hope this’ll work this time. Remove the text widget and add a category widget (the original WordPress widget). Then add the following in functions.php :

add_filter('list_cats','bm_add_caticons');
function bm_add_caticons($string) {
    $a = get_term_by('name',$string,'category');
    $string = get_cat_icon('echo=false&cat='.$a->term_id).$string;
    return $string;
}

OMG, I’m SO HAPPY right now. It FINALLY works again!!! Thank you so, so much! I just love the way the widget looks, it’s perfect like this ?? You don’t know how much you want something, until it is taken away from you ??

Do you have any explanation what the reason for this malfunction was? Cause I sure like to know it!

So do I ! ??

I’m wondering : maybe I could use this for the next versions of the plugin… We’ll see.

If you want to add the icons only in the widget (all instances, in fact), you must use the code below, or you’ll have icons every time wp_list_categories is called for example.

add_filter('widget_categories_args','bm_in_widget');
function bm_in_widget($args) {
    add_filter('list_cats','bm_add_caticons');
    return $args;
}
add_filter('wp_list_categories','bm_end_process');
function bm_end_process($output) {
    remove_filter('list_cats','bm_add_caticons');
    return $output;
}
function bm_add_caticons($string) {
    $a = get_term_by('name',$string,'category');
    $string = get_cat_icon('echo=false&cat='.$a->term_id).$string;
    return $string;
}