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Total downloads: 150,992
Active installs: 10,000
Total reviews: 9
Average rating: 4.9
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 3
Last updated: 7/9/2024 (540 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 8/6/2015 (10 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.2
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.6.4
Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 540 days ago • 9 reviews

28/100

Is WP Font Awesome abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 540 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.2
Tested up to: 6.6.4
Requires PHP: 5.6

Ratings

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Developers

Zayed Baloch (Owner)5Hammal Albulushi4Naeem Noor2

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Description

This plugin allows you to easily embed Font Awesome icon to your website using HTML or built-in shortcode handlers.

Features

  1. Shortcode support. Example: For Font Awesome 5 [wpfa5s icon=""], [wpfa5r icon=""], [wpfab icon=""], and for Font Awesome 4.7+ [wpfa icon=""]
  2. Use Larger Icon: [wpfa icon="" size="2x"]. Sizes: xs, sm, lg, 2x, 3x, 5x, 7x, 10x
  3. Add Font Awesome icon in Menu with shortcode.
  4. Support shortocde in Widgets.
  5. Support post and page title.
  6. Font Awesome version 6
  7. Support Font Awesome version 5.+ and 4.7.0
  8. Add Font Awesome icon from editor Toolbar button.

Shortcodes

Introduced three new shortcode for Font Awesome support.

Font Awesome v6 & v5
[wpfa5s icon=”home”] for Solid style.
[wpfa5r icon=”user”] for Regular style. support only in few icon.
[wpfa5b icon=”wordpress”] for Brands.

Font Awesome 4.7+
[wpfa icon=””].

Note

The fa prefix has been deprecated in version 5. The new default is the fas solid style far regular style and the fab style for brands.

WP Font Awesome plugin still support Font Awesome version 4

Installation

  1. Unzip the download package
  2. Upload wp-font-awesome to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Manual Plugin Installation

  1. Download WP Font Awesome Plugin to your desktop.
  2. If downloaded as a zip archive, extract the Plugin folder to your desktop.
  3. With your FTP program, upload the Plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory online.
  4. Go to Plugins screen and find Content WP Font Awesome in the list.
  5. Click Activate Plugin to activate it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Usage

Font Awesome v6 & v5

  • [wpfa5s icon="home"] or [wpfa5s icon="fa-home"] for Solid style.
  • [wpfa5r icon="user"] or [wpfa5r icon="fa-user"] for Regular style. support only in few icon.
  • [wpfa5b icon="wordpress"] or [wpfa5b icon="fa-wordpress"] for Brands.

Font Awesome 4.7+

Use the [wpfa icon="fa-home"] or [wpfa icon="home"] shotcode to add an icon.

Sizes
Sizes: xs, sm, lg, 2x, 3x, 5x, 7x, 10x.
Example: [wpfa5b icon="wordpress" size="3x"]

Color
[wpfa ….. color=”#336699″]

Superscript
[wpfa ….. sub=”yes”]

How to use shortcode in Widget title

Font Awesome v6 & v5
[wpfa5s icon=”home”] for Solid style.
[wpfa5r icon=”user”] for Regular style. support only in few icon.
[wpfa5b icon=”wordpress”] for Brands.

Font Awesome 4.7+
[wpfa icon=””].

Note: Don’t use double quotes (" ") on shortcode in Widget title.

Review feed

SDM36
9/3/2016

Nice and easy

Great plugin, easy to style, top stuff

Screenshots

  1. Shortcodes

    Shortcodes

  2. Shortcodes result

    Shortcodes result

  3. Larger Icon

    Larger Icon

  4. Menu

    Menu

  5. Widget

    Widget

  6. Superscript

    Superscript

Changelog

1.7.9

  • Security fixes

1.7.8

  • Updated FontAwesom to v6

1.7.7

  • Updated FontAwesom to v5.15

1.7.6

  • Fixed font load issue.

1.7.5

  • Add Font Awesome icon from editor Toolbar button.
  • Updated FontAwesom to v5.12

1.7.4

  • Updated FontAwesom to v5.4

1.7.3

  • Fixed fonts loading issue

1.7.2

  • Updated FontAwesom to v5.2.0

1.7.1

  • Added Superscript option.

1.7

  • Added color option

1.6

  • Updated Font Awesome to v5.0.10
  • Introduced 3 additional shortcode for Font Awesome 5+
  • Still support Font Awesome v4

1.5

  • Updated Font Awesome to v4.7.0

1.4

  • Bug fixes.

1.3

  • Added Larger Icon option.
  • Updated Font Awesome to v4.6.0

1.2

  • Added font icon support in post and page title.

1.1

  • Updated Font Awesome to v4.5.0
  • 20 New Icons in Font Awesome v4.5

1.0

  • First Release
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