Category icons in sidebar

A quick glance on the code…
1. Find the following line in function get_the_category_list()
$thelist .= “\n\t<li>“;

2. Replace the above line with the following
$thelist .= ‘\n\t<li id=”$category->cat_name”>’;

3. Backup (Oopps. Too late!)

Of course, the above code won’t display any icons. You still need to call the icons via CSS.

Thanks, alphaoide. You were very close. Here’s what I did. I named all my category icons the same name as the categories they represent. Then I added an image tag, using the category variable instead of an image name. The original code (around line 361) is:
$thelist .= "t<li>$linkn";

Change it to the following, substituting the location of your category images and the image type (.gif, .jpg, etc):
$thelist .= "t<li><img src="https://YOURDOMAIN.com/$category->cat_name.gif"> $linkn";

Okay, this ridiculous support forum won’t post the code correctly, even with the code tags and the backticks. In the code above, the “n” after each $link and the “t” before each <li> should have a backwards slash in front of them.

This is the closest I’ve seen to what I want to do. I already have the Category Icons plugin working properly in my post titles… now I want to add the icons to the left of each category name in the sidebar. I will be adding categoris alogn the way and would prefer if they’re dynamic and not hand-coded each time I create a new one.

However, I don’t see where the above code would go. In my sidebar php file categories are called with the following code:

<li>
<h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php list_cats(0, '', 'name', 'asc', '', 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,'','','','','') ?>
</ul>
</li>

Here’s my blog if you need a reference point: Me-Go