WP Font Awesome
This plugin allows you to easily embed Font Awesome icon to your site with simple shortcodes.
4.9(9 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, WP Font Awesome is a WordPress icon plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 152K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Font Awesome.
4.9/59 reviews
10K+active installs
152K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
This plugin allows you to easily embed Font Awesome icon to your website using HTML or built-in shortcode handlers.
Features
- Shortcode support. Example: For Font Awesome 5
[wpfa5s icon=""],[wpfa5r icon=""],[wpfab icon=""], and for Font Awesome 4.7+[wpfa icon=""] - Use Larger Icon:
[wpfa icon="" size="2x"]. Sizes:xs,sm,lg,2x,3x,5x,7x,10x - Add Font Awesome icon in Menu with shortcode.
- Support shortocde in Widgets.
- Support post and page title.
- Font Awesome version 6
- Support Font Awesome version 5.+ and 4.7.0
- Add Font Awesome icon from editor Toolbar button.
Shortcodes
Introduced three new shortcode for Font Awesome support.
Font Awesome v6 & v5
[wpfa5s icon=”home”] for Solid style.
[wpfa5r icon=”user”] for Regular style. support only in few icon.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works perfect
by chicho1969·2 years ago
Install the plugin and go. Works perfect.
Responsive Developer, Awesome Plugin!
by Seb Fontan·4 years ago
The developer is responsive and the plugin works like a charm. This is by far the most straightforward Font Awesome plugin for WordPress.
Really Helpful Plugin, thanks a lot. Please keep it updated
by vast1r·4 years ago
Exactly it’s what i wanted, Font awesome icon locally loaded. Please keep it updated. I don’t know why 10k active people but very less review. Really great work guys, keep it up. 👍👍
Awesome up-to-date plugin
by Yongjun Jung·5 years ago
Works great (especially, if you know how HTML and CSS) and it is constantly updated to be compatible with the latest WordPress.
Perfect
by Génesis·5 years ago
It does what it promises. 🙂
Download Trends
Today: 12Yesterday: 14This week: 74Period total: 7K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.8
71.6%
v1.7
27.8%
v1.5
0.7%
Top Alternatives to WP Font Awesome
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.7.9
- Security fixes
Contributors
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