Set a featured image for all the posts of a category.
As of April 2026, Category Featured Images is a WordPress post plugin with 700 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 20K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
This plugin allows to set a featured image for each category.
Posts without a featured image set will show the category’s featured image instead.
Featured images usually are placed by the theme in the single post page, in the latest posts page, etc.
But can also be shown using the shortcode [cfi_featured_image] or the PHP function cfi_featured_image(). To get the featured image URL I added the function cfi_featured_image_url().
Shortcode/PHP function optional arguments:
Shortcode exampl…
| WordPress | 3.5.0+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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