PRIV P51 Competition & Design Principles

Pictured Category Competition

There are a couple of plugins that allow to associate images with categories. The plugins mostly use the words “image” and not “logo” or “picture”.

Free Plugin “category images”

One plugin is called category images. It can set images for taxonomies like categories and tags.

However, to show the images, the PHP code has to be modified.

There is no direct integration in to wizards or archives. People are interested in the plugin, so there is a long discussion on the author’s explanation page.

The plugin has 50000+ installs

Paid plugin Category Featured Image

Envato offers the following features for $7, it is mostly concerned with thumbnails for posts (other plugin) and a category-specific override.

1. Select different Featured Image for each category
2. Generate thumbnails from external images
3. Setting to skip auto thumbnail generation right on the Post edit page
4. Generate featured images for old/legacy posts in any category via a single click
5. Log providing detail of Success/Failure of Thumbnail generation
6. Delete (De-link) featured images created by this plugin or all of them
7. Plays well with Auto Post Thumbnail PRO plugin (price 9$) and allows to set precedence for Category Featured Image
8. Fully translatable, default.po has been provided

We should put our plugin also to the codecanyon.

Design Principles

We have three alternatives to represent categories on the blog:

1. Show them inside a page building block
2. Show them inside a widget
3. Show them inside the category archives.

1. “Type Page Building Block”:

In page building blocks we do not have space for an author bio. Instead we show in the top left the category pic and name (see more under functionality 1).

Apart from the excerpt, we will able to show for each post:

• A thumbnail of the featured image for the post or
• A thumbnail of the author image for the post. This is a new field for a post. The default is the user avatar of the author.
• Or both

For the first post, only,  inside the container we would like to see:

• A bigger featured image (bigger than thumbnail)
• A bigger author image.