This plugin is obsolete. Please don’t use it anymore. There’re alternatives. For example, this one : Easy category icons.
]]>I have checked your plugin and this plugin is not compatible with PHP 7.2 as well as not updated your plugin with the latest WordPress.
So Kindly, update your plugin with Latest WordPress and PHP 7.2 compatible.
]]>I’m receiving a strange error message in my error log:
PHP Warning: trim() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /home/******/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/category-icons/category_icons.php on line 447
Here is that line:
if (trim($string) == 'Easily assign icons to your categories.') {
My blog is set to show the latest posts on the frontpage, but the icons don’t show there, just on the search and blog pages.
]]>The Category Icons plugin has evidently been abandoned, and has not kept up with syntax changes in more recent versions of WP. I’m still using it because I haven’t found anything else that does what I want, and if you’re still using it you know that the plugin now triggers a message that looks like this:
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in [...]\wp-content\plugins\category-icons\category_icons.php on line 1047 and defined in [...]
This first part of the message tells you the location of the code that is at the root of the problem. The rest of message (“and defined in…”) is just listing the place(s) that are triggering the warning by referring to the problem.
Please note that I am not a developer, and I’m only starting to learn PHP. But I did a lot of googling, and I was able to extract the solution from here:
https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/2012/12/12/php-warning-missing-argument-2-for-wpdb-prepare/
That article is written for theme/plugin authors, and it’s full of information about why the warning happens when it didn’t used to, but the important point is this:
To solve the warning about a missing 2nd argument… add a 2nd argument.
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NOTE: This is a workaround that involves editing at least one of the actual plugin files, which is not something I would normally consider doing [because any changes would be lost in a subsequent upgrade], but since this plugin seems to have been abandoned, I decided I wasn’t going to worry about losing my changes.
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So, onward. The warning message tells you which line of the file has the problem — in this case, Line 1047. Open the problematic file category_icons.php in a real text editor — NOT a word processor. (I recommend Notepad++, because it helpfully displays the file with line numbers. You can also use the Plugin Editor from the WP Dashboard, but it doesn’t have line numbers, and you’ll have to search for the following line of code.)
Line 1047 is this:
$wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS$wpdb->ig_caticons(cat_idINT NOT NULL ,priorityINT NOT NULL ,iconTEXT NOT NULL ,small_iconTEXT NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY (cat_id))"));
(You don’t need to understand what all this means, but it helps if you understand how parentheses are nested and how quotes and commas are used to structure an expression.)
Everything between the double quotes — one is near the beginning, just before CREATE, and the other is the 3rd character from the end, before the last two parentheses — is the first argument. Back when this plugin was developed, only one argument was necessary. But WordPress has advanced significantly, and this prepare function now requires two arguments (again, see that reference for plugin authors, above).
What we need to do is insert something as a placeholder for the 2nd argument, to satisfy the function so that the warning will not be triggered.
Go to the end of Line 1047 and insert a comma, a space, and two single quote marks between the double quotes and the second-to-last parenthesis.
The very end of Line 1047 should go from this:
))"));
To this:
))", ''));
That’s all there is to it. The two single quotes create an empty (Null) 2nd argument for the function, and it’s perfectly happy with that.
Before you close your file, go to Line 1338 and make exactly the same change — this is another instance of prepare, and if you skip it you’ll get exactly the same warning message, but with the new line number.
Now save your file and upload it back to your server, and you’ll be good to go.
]]>Hi
I am finding following warning in my site:
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /home/lutoncom/public_html/wp-content/plugins/category-icons/category_icons.php on line 1047 and defined in /home/lutoncom/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1197
Here is the screenshot:
https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/346123/3a8047b8e600dc0e63f3446e68500903
I have tried all the things that from this similar article:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/missing-argument-2-for-wpdbprepare-20?replies=32
But still warning is showing. Please let me know what to do.If you need I can share my site url and other details.
Thanks
]]>how to show your company icon just above your product image. or on product
there are multiple icon. admin will select which icon should be above or on product image when add a new product
this icon look like
https://sainiwebsite.webatu.com/asdfss/icon.html
Im using atahualpa theme but with all theme it doesnt work on 4.1.1
]]>Shows the warning when activating ..
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in …..\wp-content\plugins\category-icons\category_icons.php on line 1047 and defined in ….\wp-includes\wp-db.php on line 1152
]]>Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /home/derauw/www/a-ushuya.info/wp-content/plugins/category-icons/category_icons.php on line 1047 and defined in /home/derauw/www/a-ushuya.info/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1154
]]>Hello
Im using your plugin with wordpres 3.9.2 in my blog menucocina.com
It seems to be everything ok and the category icons look good but in my error log i am getting this every time:
Error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''wp_ig_caticons' (cat_id INT NOT NULL ,priority INT NOT NULL ,icon TEXT NOT NULL' at line 1 de la base de datos de WordPress para la consulta CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS 'wp_ig_caticons' (cat_id INT NOT NULL ,priority INT NOT NULL ,icon TEXT NOT NULL ,small_icon TEXT NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( cat_id )) realizada por require('wp-blog-header.php'), require_once('wp-load.php'), require_once('wp-config.php'), require_once('wp-settings.php'), do_action('init'), call_user_func_array, ig_caticons_install
Can someone help me to fix it, please?
Thanks for your help,
smdfoley
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /srv/www/site.dev/current/web/app/plugins/category-icons/category_icons.php on line 1047 and defined in /srv/www/site.dev/current/web/wp/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1147
Notice: wpdb::prepare was called incorrectly. The query argument of wpdb::prepare() must have a placeholder. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.9.) in /srv/www/site.dev/current/web/wp/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3245
]]>As texted in this post https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/installed-39-received-error?replies=3, I’m having the same problem when upgraded WP tonight. Is it possible to know when an update compatible with 3.9.1 version is going to work??
]]>Hi there,
I’m using Tripod 2.5 theme
currently when I do a search the search results have the category icon listed next to the title correctly but the posts all use the same category icon from the first post in the results – so looks like all the posts from the same category.
2nd problem – on the HP I list the latest blog posts with AJAX that calls for more posts when they click ‘more posts’ – the new posts that get loaded don’t have any category icons displayed.
Would like to add an id to the category icon for css purposes please.
Thanks.
Hi –
I saw from a previous thread that version 2.2.6 has been available for a while:
https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/category-icons.2.2.6.zip
Is there a reason this hasn’t replaced 2.2.3 in the ‘latest version’ repo?
]]>I get the following warning when I activate the plugin:
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /some_server_path/blog/wp-content/plugins/category-icons/category_icons.php on line 1047 and defined in /some_server_path/blog/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 992
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/category-icons/
[Sorry, just noticed the support thread on the same topic at: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/missing-argument-2-for-wpdbprepare-20, can’t delete this post]
]]>Hi,
Thank you for the plugin!
Installing and activating it i am getting the warning:
Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in [......]plugins/category-icons/category_icons.php on line 1047and
Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in [...]/plugins/category-icons/category_icons.php on line 1338I might be wrong but i believe that since you do not pass any variables into those queries you do not need to use prepare.
So for me, removing prepare from the two queries also removed the warnings.
Thank you
Eyal
Hello,
I received the following from my server company…
We can show you the following error being disp?ayed a lot of times in your php logs:
PHP Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /var/www/writerscarnival.ca/wp-content/plugins/category-icons/category_icons.php on line 1221 and defined in /var/www/writerscarnival.ca/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 992
Looks like this error is coming from category-icons plugin. You may want to take a look and fix this error, since it could be the culprit for the problem you are experiencing.
Is anyone else having this problem? How can I fix it?
Thanks,
Anisa
It works fine with my default language (Vietnamese), but when I switch to English it shows completely nothing.
I used WPML plugin. Here is my code:
<?php if (function_exists(‘get_cat_icon’)) get_cat_icon(‘cat=’.$cat_id); ?>
I tried:
<?php if (function_exists(‘get_cat_icon’)) echo ‘abc’; ?>
And echo result is showed normally.
Anyone have the same problem? Any helps?
]]>Hello, on my wordpress website the wp_content directory was renamed (with better security plugin), but it seems category icon doesn’t like it ?? how to tell him the new name of this directory?
thx
]]>This plugins is a fake, not worth using it. It does not work, none of the options on what should be the reference site seems to work, missing classes and functions, is poorly documented and written worse. Can not figure out which plugins refer the official documentation (category icons classic or lite? Boh mystery). The link for category icons lite not work, the domain https://www.category-icons.com not exists ….
In general, the worst existing plugins for wordpress.
]]>Hi,
there is a little issue for me with this plugin version 2.2.3 and WP 3.6
When I load my page or admin page I get this warning:
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in D:\WEBY\TN\wp-content\plugins\category-icons\category_icons.php on line 1048 and defined in D:\WEBY\TN\wp-includes\wp-db.php on line 992
Is there some trick how to fix it? (I know I can turn off warnings but it is not the solution).
Thanks
Jan
Missing second download icon of the field. And lost icons download button.What could happen? .On my site lots of categories https://s019.radikal.ru/i630/1308/5f/cc066de0ce8d.png Plugin will not work in the browser Google chrom
]]>Hallo,
almost all wpdb::prepare statements should be improved to the WP 3.5 compatible version.
See here: https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/2012/12/12/php-warning-missing-argument-2-for-wpdb-prepare/
Hi,
Wanted to let you know an error occured after updating to the newest WP release, version 3.6.
The full message the error gives in front- and backend:
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /var/www/vhosts/seominded.nl/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/category-icons/category_icons.php on line 1047 and defined in /var/www/vhosts/seominded.nl/httpdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 992
The category icons still work even with the error.
Regards Albert
]]>the site is showing an error
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb:repare(), called in /home/example/public_html/wp-content/plugins/category-icons/category_icons.php
please see this post:
https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/2012/12/12/php-warning-missing-argument-2-for-wpdb-prepare/
$wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare(“CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $wpdb->ig_caticons (cat_id INT NOT NULL ,priority INT NOT NULL ,icon TEXT NOT NULL ,small_icon TEXT NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( cat_id ))”));
(the above code should be modified)
thank you
]]>Hi
I have category icons installed and I was able to make the icons become use my feature banners and display the large ones on news posts using the following code in my blog template
<div style="background-color:white;text-align:center">
<?php if (function_exists('get_cat_icon')) get_cat_icon(); ?>
</div>However while it is all working great, the prob I have is that I am using a responsive template. While the rest of the feature banners respond to browsers in the template, Im not able to get the feature banners that appear in the banner area for categories to do the same. Instead the images display but squash in to fit the width but doesn’t alter the height so the images look off (my banners are 1400x350px).
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions as to what I could try?
Thanks for your support
]]>Hello i get this error if i install this Plugin:
[02-Jun-2013 12:48:03 UTC] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''rl_ig_caticons' (cat_id INT NOT NULL ,priority INT NOT NULL ,icon TEXT NOT NULL' at line 1 for query CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS 'rl_ig_caticons' (cat_id INT NOT NULL ,priority INT NOT NULL ,icon TEXT NOT NULL ,small_icon TEXT NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( cat_id )) made by require_once('wp-load.php'), require_once('wp-config.php'), require_once('wp-settings.php'), do_action('init'), call_user_func_array, ig_caticons_install
[02-Jun-2013 12:48:03 UTC] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''rl_ig_caticons' (cat_id INT NOT NULL ,priority INT NOT NULL ,icon TEXT NOT NULL' at line 1 for query CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS 'rl_ig_caticons' (cat_id INT NOT NULL ,priority INT NOT NULL ,icon TEXT NOT NULL ,small_icon TEXT NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( cat_id )) made by require('wp-blog-header.php'), require_once('wp-load.php'), require_once('wp-config.php'), require_once('wp-settings.php'), do_action('init'), call_user_func_array, ig_caticons_installCan anyone help me to fix that?!
Or is there any Fix for this?
]]>I can not get the download to work with my theme. Please help!!
]]>My site was on domain.azurewebsites.net when I set up the site, including category icons. When I moved to https://www.domain.com I noticed that many of my wp-contant/uploads files still had domain.azurewebsites.net as the URL. I did a search and replace on the _posts and _postmeta table to fix this and it worked for everything but the icons I use in Category Icons plug-in. They still use the domain.azurewebsites.net URL.
Any idea where that is being stored so I can change it? It’s not in wp_posts or wp_postmeta
thanks
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