by Mat 4.5 (11 reviews)

Category Featured Images

Name: Category Featured Images
Rating: 4.5 (11 reviews)
Author: Mat

Set a featured image for all the posts of a category.

Category Featured Images ranks #8,343 among WordPress.org plugins with 600+ active installations, is #951 of 6,338 in the Media category, a 4.5/5 rating from 11 reviews, and was last updated Jan 29, 2015. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.1 (Current: 7.1.1)

vtrunk Current Version vtrunk

Updated 11 years ago Last Update on 29 Jan, 2015

Refreshed 10 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#951 of 6,338 in Media Top 25% by installs No update in over a year

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Rank

#8,343

-2 this week

Active Installs

600+

-10.4%

KW Avg Position

N/A

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Downloads

20.9K

+1 today

Support Resolved

— No change

Rating

90%

Review 4.5 out of 5

4.5 (11 reviews)

Next Milestone 700

Total Progress 66%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.5

11 reviews

Overall 90%

9 (82%)

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 1 month ago

Sep 22, 2025 UNPATCHED

Category Featured Images [category-featured-images] <= 1.1.8 (unfixed)

CVE-2025-58655 · No fix released

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Plugin Details

Version: trunk
Last Updated: Jan 29, 2015
Requires WP: 3.5.0+
Tested Up To: 4.1
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Mat

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5
Reviews: 11
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

categories images post posts

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and bloggers who organize content by category and want consistent imagery across posts. It solves the problem of missing featured images by letting a single image be set per category and automatically displayed on posts that lack their own.