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WP Bannerized Categories

Place a custom banner and link at the top of your category and post pages. Easily update the image through your category edit page.

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Tested up to WordPress 4.8
Current version0.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 4.8
Minimum stackWP 4.0 · PHP 5.6
Directory statusactive
Last directory update30 Mar 20188y ago
Active installations10Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records WP Bannerized Categories version 0.1 as active, updated 8y ago and tested up to WordPress 4.8.

Overview

About this plugin

Place a custom banner and link at the top of your category and post pages. Easily update the image through your category edit page.

Features:

  • No configuration needed, just install and start using
  • Supports an image for each category
  • Custom post category positions with a template tag, shortcode for including the image in a custom area in your custom category template and post template.
  • Support a link for each category / banner image

Getting Started:

  • From the sidebar click ‘Posts’ -> ‘Categories’
  • Select an individual category from your list
  • Paste the url or upload the image of the banner you’d like to use into the “Banner Image Url” field
  • That’s it, your banner should now be displaying on your category page.
  • Remove image by deleting the url from the edit category page.

You can hide the automatic image placement by unchecking “Automatically insert banner above main content of category page” while on posts to display its necessary to check the second checkbox.

You can then place the template tag wp_show_category_banner() in your custom category template to customize the position of the image in your markup. Note – this tag must be placed on category templates – not posts templates.

For posts template copy and paste shortcode do_shortcode( ‘[category_post_banner]’ ) at desired location.

Plugin’s Official Documentation and Support Page

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • banner
  • category
  • hyperlink
  • image
  • post
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 4.8

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 4.8.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to4.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.0 · PHP 5.6
Update activity30 Mar 20188y ago

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