Block for Font Awesome

This plugin allows you to display any Font Awesome 5, Font Awesome 6, Font Awesome 7 or Font Awesome kit icon as an editor block (Gutenberg) or a custom HTML block.

You can also add the icon as HTML code or, inline, by using the [fa class="fas fa-fw fa-phone"] shortcode.

Read more about the Block for Font Awesome plugin here.

1. Log into your WordPress site
2. Install and activate plugin
3. Add a Font Awesome Icon block

1. 

   Front-end icon blocks

2. 

   Back-end icon blocks

3. 

   Icon settings

4. 

   Plugin settings

1.7.3

• UPDATE: Update Font Awesome 7 to 7.0.1 (from 7.0.0)

1.7.2

• FIX: Fix block control types for latest block editor versions
• FEATURE: Add better support for “icon” shortcodes

1.7.1

• FEATURE: Refactor resource loading and CDN source

1.7.0

• FEATURE: Add support for Font Awesome 7
• UPDATE: Update WordPress compatibility

1.6.1

• UPDATE: Add support for “icon” shortcode for easier migration from Font Awesome 5 to Font Awesome 6+

1.6.0

• FEATURE: Add icon size
• UPDATE: Add a default icon class so the icon is visible in the editor
• UPDATE: Update Font Awesome 6 to 6.7.2 (from 6.6.0)
• UPDATE: Update color picker to use ColorPalette
• UPDATE: Update WordPress compatibility

1.5.0

• SECURITY: Further sanitize and escape all settings
• UPDATE: Update Font Awesome 6 to 6.6.0 (from 6.5.2)
• UPDATE: Add useBlockProps from wp.blockEditor
• UPDATE: Add PanelBody to the variable declarations at the top
• UPDATE: Change wp.editor.InspectorControls to wp.blockEditor.InspectorControls since wp.editor is deprecated

1.4.6

• FIX: Fix external CSS array not being initialized when saving settings

1.4.5

• FIX: Fix XSS vulnerability

1.4.4

• FIX: Fix XSS vulnerability
• UPDATE: Update Font Awesome 6 to 6.5.2 (from 6.5.1)

1.4.3

• FIX: Add extra condition for loading Font Awesome 6 + Local stylesheets

1.4.2

• FEATURE: Add option to add an array of external (or local) stylesheets
• UPDATE: Update WordPress compatibility

1.4.1

• FIX: Add nonce to settings page

1.4.0

• FIX: Fix CSRF vulnerability
• SECURITY: Restrict directory indexing
• SECURITY: Make sure all options are sanitized before casting to integer
• UPDATE: Update WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Update Font Awesome 6 to 6.5.1 (from 6.4.2)

1.3.3

• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome 6 to 6.4.2 (from 6.4.0)

1.3.2

• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility

1.3.1

• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome 6 to 6.4.0 (from 6.2.1)

1.3.0

• FIX: Fixed Font Awesome kit not being loaded in the back-end
• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome 6 to 6.2.1 (from 6.2.0)

1.2.6

• FIX: Fixed color picker for new Gutenberg versions (replaced ColorPalette with ColorPicker)
• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome 6 to 6.2.0 (from 6.1.2)

1.2.5

• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Updated description to include Font Awesome 6 and Font Awesome kit icons
• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome 6 to 6.1.2 (from 6.1.1)

1.2.4

• UPDATE: Updated block editor filter to support WordPress 5.8+
• UPDATE: Updated WordPress requirements to support WordPress 5.8+

1.2.3

• FIX: Fixed Font Awesome 6 source being hardcoded to a local path

1.2.2

• FIX: Fixed Font Awesome 6 source option not being selected

1.2.1

• UPDATE: Removed hardcoded Font Awesome 6 source files and replaced with CDN versions

1.2.0

• FEATURE: Added Font Awesome 6 (6.1.1) support
• FEATURE: Added Font Awesome Kit support
• FEATURE: Added link target (self or new tab)
• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.15.4 (from 5.15.3)
• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Updated codebase to conform to latest WordPress Coding Standards (WPCS) ruleset
• UPDATE: Added plugin version parameter to admin.css to fix caching issues

1.1.10

• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.15.3 (from 5.15.2)
• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility

1.1.9

• FIX: Fixed array and string offset access syntax with curly braces in PHP 8

1.1.8

• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.15.2 (from 5.15.1)

1.1.7

• FEATURE: Added option to enqueue Font Awesome on front-end
• FEATURE: Added option to enqueue Font Awesome on back-end
• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility

1.1.6

• FEATURE: Added icon URL (link)
• FEATURE: Added icon alignment
• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.15.1 (from 5.15.0)
• FIX: Added missing translations

1.1.5

• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.15.0 (from 5.14.0)
• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility

1.1.4

• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.14.0 (from 5.13.0)
• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Tested with the latest Gutenberg plugin version

1.1.3

• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.13.0 (from 5.12.1) to include the new COVID-19 icons
• UPDATE: Tested with the latest Gutenberg plugin version

1.1.2

• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.12.1 (from 5.10.1)
• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility

1.1.1

• FIX: Fixed SVN import
• UPDATE: Updated plugin assets

1.1.0

• FIX: Enqueued Font Awesome 5 in admin section (do not depend on other themes and plugins)
• FIX: Fixed wrong inspector panel label
• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.10.1 (from 5.9.0)
• UPDATE: Updated description to include the shortcode

1.0.2

• UPDATE: Added fixed-width parameter
• UPDATE: Added custom colour picker

1.0.1

• FIX: Changed plugin initialization to avoid a console error
• UPDATE: Changed name and slug
• UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.9.0 (from 5.8.2)
• UPDATE: General cleanup

1.0.0

• Initial release