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WP Font Awesome

4.9 out of 5 stars. 4.9 9 reviews

This plugin allows you to easily embed Font Awesome icon to your site with simple shortcodes.

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v1.8.0 10,000+ installs WP 3.2+ PHP 5.6+

By Zayed Baloch · Read the readme on WordPress.org

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What you get inside

7 screens

  • Shortcodes

  • Shortcodes result

  • Larger Icon

  • Menu

  • Widget

  • Superscript

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Shortcodes

Shortcodes

About this plugin

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

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.

4.9

9 reviews

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  • 4 ★ 1
  • 3 ★ 0
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