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Widget Icon

Enhance your website with 640+ icons designed for Twitter Bootstrap. Just select an icon and display it in any widget on your WordPress site.

By dFactory·Icon·Free
4.9(13 reviews)
·700 active installs·Updated 12 years ago
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As of April 2026, Widget Icon is a WordPress icon plugin with 700 active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 24K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Font Awesome.

4.9/513 reviews
700active installs
24K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013

Overview

Widget Icon enhances your website with 640+ beautiful icons from Font Awesome and Elusive font libraries designed for Twitter Bootstrap. You just select a font library, select an icon and display it in any widget on your WordPress site.

For more information, check out plugin page at dFactory or plugin support forum.

Features include:

  • Works out-of-the-box with every widget and theme.
  • Select from 640+ beautiful icons
  • Select from Font Awesome and Elusive icon libraries
  • Select icon position
  • Set icon padding in pixels or percentage
  • Select icon vertical allignment (top, bottom, middle etc.)
  • Select icon size (standard, large, x2, x3, x4)
  • Automatically use color from widget title or set it manually with color-picker
  • .pot file for translations included

You can also use these icons anywhere in yo…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.913 reviews
5 ★
12
4 ★
1
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Compatibility

WordPress3.3+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.1.3

  • New: German translation, thanks to Matthias Siebler
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

dFactorydFactory
Plugin Info
Version
1.1.3
Last Updated
Dec 9, 2013
WP Requires
3.3+
Tested Up To
3.7.41
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
700
Downloads
24K+
Added
Apr 12, 2013
Business
Free

Tags

iconwidgetwidgetswidget-iconwidget-only

Developer

D
dFactory
11 plugins0.4M+ total installs
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