The Categories Images is a Wordpress plugin allow you to add image to category, tag or custom taxonomy.
As of April 2026, Categories Images is a WordPress Tag image plugin with 50K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 85 reviews. It has been downloaded 894K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Downloads are down 19% this week. Top alternative: Jam Taxonomy Image.
The Categories Images is a WordPress plugin allow you to add image to category, tag or custom taxonomy.
Use <?php if (function_exists('z_taxonomy_image_url')) echo z_taxonomy_image_url(); ?> to get the url and put it in any img tag.
Or simply use <?php if (function_exists('z_taxonomy_image')) z_taxonomy_image(); ?> in (category or taxonomy) template.
Access term images via the WP REST API. The field z_taxonomy_image_url is automatically added to term objects.
[z_taxonomy_image term_id="123" size="medium" link="yes"] – Display a specific term image with a link.[z_taxonomy_list taxonomy="category" style="grid" columns="4" show_name="yes"] – Display a beautiful grid of terms with their images.Use term imag…
I have been using this plugin for a couple years and it is a significant part of making categories work like, well, categories, and making my website look more graphical and appealing. The one time there was an issue, the plugin author fixed it very quickly. Really grateful for this plugin. Thank you!
I give 2 stars because this plugin seems to do what it claims, that is, assign an image to each category and tag taxonomy (which is exactly what I want and something the core WordPress should already have!)
However, there’s no Block added for easily using the new feature in templates. You have to edit PHP code.
I also caution everyone to review the old complaints about how it records the images in the database and you should thoroughly test on a staging site first if the old complaints are still valid (slowing down large sites, not cleaning up the DB, etc)
I installed it, and then realised that my SEO plugin allows OG images. I deactivated and deleted it. Now none of my categories work. I reset the permalinks, nothing. The categories show there are items, but the posts show no categories or tags attached to the post, and none can be added. I don’t know WHAT it did!
I had tested them all, and I can confirm that this plugin is the best in its category. I use it throughout my project, the z_taxonomy() function has become my favorite 😉 Thank you, Muhammad, for continuing to maintain it 🙏.
Tested and used on WordPress 6.0.2, perfect
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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