Ed's Font Awesome Plugin is the ultimate Font Awesome Icon Shortcode plugin. Place over 2,000 font awesome icons anywhere on your WordPress site  …

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<p>The ultimate Font Awesome plugin for WordPress. Use all of the free font awesome icons in one place.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Basic icon shortcode with style, name, size, and color</li>
<li>Mask icons — combine any two icons</li>
<li>Mask circle icons — place any icon inside a circle</li>
<li>Rotate and flip icons</li>
<li><strong>NEW: Animated icons</strong> — spin, pulse, beat, fade, bounce, flip, shake</li>
<li><strong>NEW: Layered/stacked icons</strong> — stack icons, text, and counters</li>
<li><strong>NEW: Icon links</strong> — wrap any icon in a clickable link</li>
<li><strong>NEW: Color attribute</strong> — set icon color on any shortcode</li>
<li>Font Awesome 6.7.2 included</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added option for size to require only size attribute without fa- prefix.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Removed unecessary font-awesome files for thinner plugin size.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.4</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added Spin feature and mask feature.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>Updated Instructions</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Updated Font Awesome to vs. 6.7.2. This version Adds X social media icon</li>
</ul>
<h4>2.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Security fix: Sanitized and escaped all shortcode attribute outputs to prevent Stored XSS (CVE-2026-2496)</li>
<li>Applied esc_attr() to all shortcode HTML attribute outputs</li>
<li>Applied esc_html() to admin notice helper function</li>
<li>Tested up to WordPress 6.8</li>
</ul>
<h4>3.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>NEW: Animated icons shortcode [eds_fa_spin] — spin, pulse, beat, fade, bounce, flip, shake</li>
<li>NEW: Layered/stacked icons [eds_fa_layers] with [eds_fa_layer_icon], [eds_fa_layer_text], [eds_fa_layer_counter]</li>
<li>NEW: Icon link shortcode [eds_fa_link] — wrap any icon in a clickable link</li>
<li>NEW: Color attribute added to all icon shortcodes</li>
<li>Improved: Admin scripts only load on plugin pages (no longer on every admin page)</li>
<li>Improved: Cleaner code structure with constants and security best practices</li>
<li>Updated dashboard with full shortcode reference and live previews</li>
</ul>


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