Category icons and images

An icon next to each category makes your home page much easier to scan: buyers spot Cars or Jobs before they read the words. Yclas lets you give a category either an uploaded image or an icon from a built-in icon library.

Upload an image icon

1. Go to Listings › Categories and click the category.
2. In Category icon on the right, click Choose an image and pick a file.
3. Click Upload.

The preview shows the new icon straight away. To replace it, upload another file; to remove it, click Delete icon.

Requirement	Detail
Shape	Square works best. Themes show icons in square tiles.
Format	A format allowed under Media (JPEG, PNG, WebP…). PNG with a transparent background looks best.
Size	At most 1 MB. Larger pictures are scaled down to your Image Width and Image Height from Media.

Pick an icon from the library

If you don’t have images, use the Icon Font field instead:

1. Open the category and click in Icon Font.
2. Choose an icon from the list that opens.
3. Click Submit.

When a category has both, themes use the uploaded image.

Where icons appear

It depends on your theme:

Theme	Where icons show
Nova	Top-level categories on the home page, as tiles. On a category page, its subcategories as tiles with their icon and number of listings (first page of results only). Categories without an icon get a generic tag icon.
Mercury	Top-level categories on the home page. On a category page, its subcategories as tiles with their icon and number of listings, on the first page and only when at least one subcategory has an icon. In lists, a listing without photos shows its category icon instead.
Older themes	Most show the uploaded image or the library icon next to the categories on the home page.

The categories list in the sidebar (Categories widget) stays text only.

Upload icons for all top-level categories, or none: a home page where half the tiles have pictures looks unfinished.

Good to know

• Icons are stored with your other site images in Yclas’s cloud storage and served from there.
• If you change a category’s Seoname, its icon is renamed with it; you don’t need to upload it again.
• If a new icon doesn’t show, your browser may be showing the old one: see My changes don’t show up.
• Locations can have icons too, from the Location icon card on a location’s edit page. Only some themes show them.

Related guides

• Categories — create and organise your categories.
• Theme options — what your theme shows on the home page.
• Photos — image formats and sizes.