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Easy Taxonomy Images is very light plugin which allows you to have featured and or cover images for category tags and custom taxonomies
Features
Extremely lightweight
Support cover images & feature images for all category tags & custom taxonomies
easy to use settings
How to use - Backend
Install and activate the plugin
Navigate to Dashboard > Easy Taxonomy Images
Disable Taxonomies for which you do not need featured and or cover Image (there is option to keep both cover & feature or any of these or none of these for each taxonomy )
Set default feature Image & Cover Image
Now go to any of your chosen taxonomy edit/add page, there you can add feature and or cover image as enabled
How to use - Frontend
Easy Taxonomy Image provides you with two functions :
taxonomy_featured_image place it on any of the category templates it will display the feature image of the current category
taxonomy_cover_image place it on any of the category templates it will display the cover image of the current category
To fetch featured or cover image of any particular term just pass term_id
as first argument in the function, like so :
taxonomy_featured_image(34); - display featured image term with id = 34