Font Awesome Icons WordPress Plugin
Enables easy use of the Font Awesome icon font set from within WordPress. Icons can be inserted using HTML, shortcode, or TinyMCE plugin.
Font Awesome is a pictographic font set of 361 icons. The icons are infinitely scalable and screen reader compatible.
A full list of the 361 Font Awesome icons is available: FontAwesomeIconsCheatsheet.pdf
To use any of the Font Awesome icons on your WordPress site you have three options:
HTML
All code examples on the Font Awesome site apply: http://fontawesome.io/examples/
Examples
Pencil icon
<i class="icon-pencil"></i>Phone icon
<i class="icon-phone"></i>Chevron left icon
<i class="icon-chevron-left">
Bootstrap
font icon
font-awesome
icon font
icons
ui
Sites running Font Awesome Icons, click to open one
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Usage of Font Awesome Icons over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 3 259 to 1 703 — down 1 556 (-47.7%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 1 703 | -160 |
| June 2024 | 1 863 | -33 |
| May 2024 | 1 896 | +14 |
| April 2024 | 1 882 | -25 |
| March 2024 | 1 907 | -333 |
| February 2024 | 2 240 | -74 |
| January 2024 | 2 314 | -315 |
| December 2023 | 2 629 | -187 |
| November 2023 | 2 816 | +4 |
| October 2023 | 2 812 | -127 |
| September 2023 | 2 939 | -217 |
| August 2023 | 3 156 | -63 |
| July 2023 | 3 219 | -40 |
| June 2023 | 3 259 | — |
Themes used with Font Awesome Icons
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Divi |
| 3 | Newspaper |
| 4 | Avada |
| 5 | Canvas |
| 6 | Twentytwelve |
| 7 | Avada-child-theme |
| 8 | Divi-child |
| 9 | Enfold |
| 10 | Dynamik-gen |
| 11 | Anivia |
| 12 | Cherryframework |
| 13 | X |
| 14 | Responsive |
| 15 | Twentyfourteen |
| 16 | Salient |
| 17 | Flatsome |
| 18 | Twentythirteen |
| 19 | Headway |
| 20 | Vantage |
Sites running Font Awesome Icons
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