Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field
Adds a new 'Font Awesome Icon' field to the popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
4.9(36 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field is a WordPress acf plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 36 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.7M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®).
4.9/536 reviews
100K+active installs
0%resolved
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Add a Font Awesome icon field type to Advanced Custom Fields.
- Specify which FontAwesome icon sets to use (Solid, Regular, Light, Thin, Duotone, Duotone Sharp, Brands, and Custom Upload Icons) (Some features only available with FontAwesome 5.x or 6.x icons)
- Create your own custom filtered list of FontAwesome icons to use with your fields. Use different custom icon sets with different fields
- Returns Icon Element, Icon Class, Icon Unicode, or an Object including the element, class, unicode value, and SVG data (if applicable)
- Optionally enqueues Font Awesome in footer where needed (when a FontAwesome field is being used on the page))
- Integrates with the FontAwesome GraphQL for loading your FontAwesome Kits, searching for icons, and loading the latest version of FontAwesome
Note: It is recom…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Good for a long time, but now lacking in FA support
by Kipex·5 months ago·1 reply
Once an excellent plugin, then for a year or two mostly abandoned with lacking support for newer FA styles. As of December 2025 it is now updated and active again thanks to a new contributor, supporting all the latest FA7 styles. Kudos for bringing this useful plugin back to life.
- This topic was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by Kipex. Reason: Plugin updates resumed
Great job
by crdunst·2 years ago·1 reply
It’s one of those plugins, that does a job perfectly and discreetly, without trying to dominate the dashboard or upsell.
After adding it for yet another site, I thought I could at least write a review in appreciation, so thanks Matt, for your time and efforts, it’s appreciated.
Excellent Support
by Sakib Hasan·2 years ago
Excellent Support
Great plugin quality and excellent support
by developress·3 years ago
I used the plugin within my own custom plugin and was impressed with the quality of the code and the functionality of the plugin. I asked the developer for support and he got back to me within hours.
Advised.
Fantastic plugin.
by DavidB722·3 years ago
Does what it says on the tin. I use this frequently when building bespoke solutions, and it always gets the job done.
Download Trends
Today: 293Yesterday: 418This week: 3KPeriod total: 240K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v5.0
52.5%
v4.1
22.1%
v4.0
15.7%
v3.1
6.9%
Other
2.8%
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Changelog
5.0.2
Note: The next bigger update will have changes to the way icons are being selected when using FontAwesome 7.x to utilize new and future features from FontAwesome. Unfortunately this means we will be deprecating the “Icon Set Builder” feature to better align this plugin with the FontAwesome ecosystem. This change will only effect users using FontAwesome 7.x icons. The Icon Set Builder will continue to work as it has with previous versions of FontAwesome. We welcome your feedback on this change.
- Bugfix: Added custom kit icons to Font Awesome 7.x icon set loading.
- Security: Sanitizing and escaping more outputs.
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