Bas Schuiling

<ul>
<li>Author: <a href="http://www.weblogmechanic.com/about" rel="nofollow ugc">Bas Schuiling</a></li>
<li>Project URI: <a href="http://www.weblogmechanic.com/plugins/simple-category-icons/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.weblogmechanic.com/plugins/simple-category-icons/</a></li>
<li>License: GPL 2. See License below for copyright jots and tittles.</li>
</ul>
<p>Simple Category Icons (SCI) was developed because of dissatisfaction with other icon plugins for categories. SCI provides a way to put icons next to your taxonomies like categories, tags and custom taxonomies in a easy and friendly way. Besides being simple SCI offers you full control over the output.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Three customizable sizes for your icons ( small, medium, large )</li>
<li>Integrates in taxonomies admin interface</li>
<li>Simple theme template call </li>
<li>Stores your icons in the media library </li>
<li>You can use any taxonomy to put icons at. </li>
<li>Use filters and arguments to customize output</li>
</ul>
<p>See the instructions under ‘installation’ to get most out of SCI.</p>
<p>More features will be added after popular demand</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>The FeedWordPress Advanced Filter plugin is copyright © 2013 by Bas Schuiling. It uses<br />
code derived or translated from:</p>
<p>according to the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a>.</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under<br />
the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a> as published by the Free<br />
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any<br />
later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY<br />
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A<br />
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>


Simple Category Icons

A simple way to add icons to your categories and other taxonomies.

Patrik Csak

<p><a href="https://github.com/patrik-csak/fa-wp-admin-menu-icons" rel="nofollow ugc">View on GitHub</a> for better documentation</p>
<p><strong>FA WP Admin Menu Icons</strong> allows you to use Font Awesome icons for WordPress custom post types and custom menu pages by passing the Font Awesome class string, just like using Font Awesome on the front end</p>
<p>Here’s an example:</p>
<pre><code>register_post_type( 'custom_post_type', [
    //...
    'menu_icon' => 'fa-solid fa-thumbs-up',
    //...
] );
</code></pre>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>`register_post_type()`</h4>
<p>To use a Font Awesome icon for your custom post type with <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_post_type/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>register_post_type()</code></a>, use a Font Awesome class string for the <code>$args['menu_icon]</code> parameter:</p>
<pre><code>register_post_type( 'custom_post_type', [
    //...
    'menu_icon' => 'fa-solid fa-thumbs-up',
    //...
] );
</code></pre>
<h4>`add_menu_page()`</h4>
<p>To use a Font Awesome icon for your custom menu page with <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_menu_page/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>add_menu_page()</code></a>, use a Font Awesome class string for the <code>$icon_url</code> parameter:</p>
<pre><code>add_menu_page(
    page_title: 'Custom Menu Page',
    menu_title: 'Custom Menu Page',
    capability: 'manage_options',
    menu_slug: 'custom_menu_page',
    icon_url: 'fa-solid fa-thumbs-up',
);
</code></pre>
<h4>Custom Post Type UI plugin</h4>
<p>To use a Font Awesome icon with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/" rel="ugc">Custom Post Type UI plugin</a>, use a Font Awesome class string for the <strong>Menu Icon</strong> field when adding or editing a Post Type</p>
<h3>Caveats</h3>
<p>FA WP Admin Menu Icons only supports Font Awesome’s <a href="https://fontawesome.com/search?ic=free&o=r" rel="nofollow ugc">free icons</a></p>


FA WP Admin Menu Icons

Use Font Awesome icons for custom post types and custom menu pages.

Simple Category Icons vs FA WP Admin Menu Icons