Font Awesome
The official way to use Font Awesome Free or Pro icons on your WordPress site, brought to you by the Font Awesome team.
3.6(61 reviews)
·400K+ active installs·Updated 3 days agoAs of April 2026, Font Awesome is a WordPress icon plugin with 400K+ active installations and a 3.6/5 rating from 61 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.8M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 2166% this week. Support resolution rate: 33%. Top alternative: Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator.
3.6/561 reviews
400K+active installs
33%resolved
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
The official way to use Font Awesome Free or Pro icons on your WordPress site, brought to you by the Font Awesome team.
Features
Our official plugin makes it easy to add Font Awesome icons to your pages, posts, and templates and includes the following features:
- Use Pro or Free icons, from the latest release or a specific release.
- Use custom icons from your Pro Kits.
- Use a Font Awesome Kit to add any of our icons (including the latest Duotone styles and custom icons!), or select the Font Awesome CDN for Version 5 icons only.
- Turn on automatic compatibility for Font Awesome Version 4 if you – or your plugins – are still using Version 4 syntax.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues when multiple versions of Font Awesome are loading on your site from other plugins/themes, which can cau…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
It works
by ilyazzzz·4 weeks ago
It’s a normal plugin, I don’t understand why its rating is so low.
It does exactly what it says in the tin
by danielepais·3 months ago
It worked flawlessly to add social icons onto wp navbar / top menu.
Dangerous, written by clowns
by deancs·8 months ago
My Pro license expired on the 5-July. On 25th July my sites went down due to PHP Fatal error: Uncaught FortAwesome\ApiTokenInvalidException: Whoops, it looks like that API Token is not valid. Try another one?
Put big banners in the admin or dont allow the fonts to be rendered, but white screen of death – really!
Nice free plugin
by alexadsoxford·10 months ago
Just works, quick and simple. Like it
Icon Links
by Pauron·10 months ago
Such a good plugin. I love the animations. BUT: Cannot make my icons a link in Gutenberg. I need to switch to code to add <a> manually. Hope (and please) you add this feature.
- This topic was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by Pauron.
Download Trends
Today: 8KYesterday: 78KThis week: 131KPeriod total: 1.7M
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v5.1
62.2%
v4.5
9.9%
v5.0
7.7%
Other
7.6%
v4.4
7.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
5.1.4
- Update the icon chooser package. This is only for compatibility with other tools that may be
loaded on a page that also use the icon chooser package. It does not change how the icon chooser
functions in this plugin.
Contributors
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