Font Awesome icon selector for powerful custom metabox generator CMB2
As of April 2026, CMB2 Field Type: Font Awesome is a WordPress cmb2 plugin with 400 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Integration-CMB2-qTranslate.
Font Awesome icon selector for powerful custom metabox generator CMB2
You can use as field type in CMB2 function file. Add a new field, set type to faiconselect and add font awesome icons to options (look Usage for examples). Plugin uses jQuery Font Picker for creating a icon selector.
Detailed instructions on Github
$cmb->add_field( array(
'name' => __( 'Select Font Awesome Icon', 'cmb' ),
'id' => $prefix . 'iconselect',
'desc' => 'Select Font Awesome icon',
'type' => 'faiconselect',
'options' => array(
'fa fa-facebook' => 'fa fa-facebook',
'fa fa-500px' => 'fa fa-500px',
'fa fa-twitter' => 'fa fa-twitter'
)
) );
$cmb->add_field( array(
'name' => __( 'Select Font…| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 5.2.24 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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