Taxonomy Images
Associate images from your media library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies.
4.4(40 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, Taxonomy Images is a WordPress tag plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 40 reviews. It has been downloaded 217K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 16% this week. Top alternative: Pages with category and tag.
4.4/540 reviews
10K+active installs
217K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
Displaying Your Images in Your Theme
There are a few filters that you can use in your theme to display the image associations created by this plugin. Please read below for detailed information.
Display a single image representing the term archive
The following filter will display the image associated with the term asked for in the query string of the URL. This filter only works in views that naturally use templates like category.php, tag.php, taxonomy.php and all of their derivatives. Please read about template hierarchy for more information about these templates. The simplest use of this filter looks like:
print apply_filters( 'taxonomy-images-queried-term-image', '' );
This code will generate and print an image tag. It’s output can be modifed by passing an optional third paramete…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Continues to work (WP 5.7.2)
·4 years ago
I could wish for a bit more sophistication in the front-end interface — the documentation hints at a raft of options — but I’ve had it working for years now, and it keeps on ticking.
Very useful plugin
by Mladen Gradev·6 years ago
Thank you! Works great and have a lot of options.
Great!
by cabowm02·6 years ago
Works as described! I can display multiple images if I select multiple categories for a post, but I can also still display only one image for an archive category and not have issues with other images being displayed for posts within that category assigned if I’m on a specific category page. I’m still trying to figure out how to get alt or title of image to display though.
Display loop image category
by yandarma·6 years ago
Hi,
I’m new in wordpress, how to call image in Loop category display ?
Great Plugin
by iwtravelllc·7 years ago
Works as expected. Thank you.
Download Trends
Today: 32Yesterday: 32This week: 186Period total: 10K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.4.8 |
| PHP | 5.3+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
79.5%
v0.9
16.3%
Other
4.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Unreleased
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