How to add thumbnails to categories

Or use a plugin:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/category-icons/

Hmm interesting, looks good thanks. I take with that I can assign different icons/thumbnails to individual posts?

I take with that I can assign different icons/thumbnails to individual posts?

I think I read that on the plugin authors site. But of course there’s also the native WordPress Media stuff you can use with individual posts.

WordPress Media stuff

By that do you mean adding “Thumbnail” to the “custom fields” followed by a url to the image? I did that bit and nothing happened.

I’m currently using version 1.2 of the Obscure Theme https://tinyurl.com/n5ozjc it doesn’t seen to support that feature in that version. Would upgrade to the next but I would have to go back and make a lot of changes which isn’t really feasible.

I think MichaelH was referring to setting a thumbnail from within the Post editor….and using WP’s thumbnail feature by adding something like this to theme
<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>

https://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/
explains it better than I can….

Thanks, I got thumbnails to turn up in posts but not under categories listings, any ideas? After this I’ll stop asking silly questions.

follow the template heirarchy

You’ll need to edit whatever template is being used for your categories

category.php or archive.php …etc….

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Hierarchy

Thanks for your help RVoodoo, if you have a look at the code at the top of the page that’s from the archive.php file I’ve made the alterations to the functions.php file and I can’t figure out what code to add to archive bit?

I presume it’s something like:

<li class=”floatLeft”><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>