Automatic Category Images [Support Thread]

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19 Apr 2026, 20:20

balihr

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Automatic Category Images [Support Thread]

An admin-side plugin for Zen Cart that automatically assigns images to categories that are missing them. It works by scanning your store for empty categories, finding a random product image within that category (or its subcategories), safely copying the image to your categories image folder, and assigning it to the category.

https://github.com/zenexpert/auto_category_images

Question for mods: should I submit to Plugins as a new plugin or would you prefer it as an updated version of the existing old one (https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1977)? I'm unsure because it has absolutely nothing in common except for the end result...

19 Apr 2026, 23:36

lat9

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Re: Automatic Category Images [Support Thread]

Your call, @balihr, since that existing plugin is "close" in functionality and hasn't been updated forever. The benefit of reuse is that you've already got a plugin ID for your documentation!

21 Apr 2026, 18:27

balihr

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Re: Automatic Category Images [Support Thread]

Yeah, you're right, but the major downside is that most people read the main description of the plugin, not the update notes. To be perfectly honest, even I just noticed that plugin supports subcategories and will recursively go through until it finds an image... The note with uppercase text was all I had originally seen... So, I just opted for a new plugin.

When approved, it will be available here: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2439