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Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field
Adds a new 'Font Awesome Icon' field to the popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
- Installs
- 90,000+
- Rating
- 4.9 (36)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
Menu Icons by Themeisle – Add Icons to Navigation Menus
Add icons to WordPress navigation menus easily — pick from Font Awesome, Dashicons, image icons & more. Style menu items with custom colors & sizes.
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #306 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 4.7M
- 4,702,634
- Downloads, 30 days
- 39K
- 5.6K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.9 / 5
- 851 reviews
- Last updated
- 32 days ago
- Sep 29, 2026
- Version
- 0.13.25
- 70 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | September 29, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 4.7 or newer |
| Needs PHP | Not stated |
| First published | February 20, 2014 |
| Support, last two months | 2 of 2 threads resolved (100%) |
Reviews
4.9 / 5 from 851 reviews
| 5 stars | 794 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 33 |
| 3 stars | 11 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 12 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
This plugin gives you the ability to add icons to your menu items, similar to the look of the latest dashboard menu.
Usage
- After the plugin is activated, go to Appearance > Menus to edit your menus
- Enable/Disable icon types in “Menu Icons Settings” meta box
- Set default settings for current nav menu; these settings will be inherited by the newly added menu items
- Select icon by clicking on the “Select icon” link
- Save the menu
Supported icon types
- Dashicons (WordPress core icons)
- Elusive Icons by Aristeides Stathopoulos
- Font Awesome by Dave Gandy
- Foundation Icons by Zurb
- Genericons by Automattic
- Fontello icon packs
- TI Icons icon pack by ThemeIsle
- Image (attachments)
- SVG (attachments)
Planned supported icon types
- Image (URL)
Compatible themes
Menu icons works with most of the themes out there, especially with popular ones like Twenty Seventeen or Hestia.
Development of this plugin is done on GitHub. Pull requests welcome. Please see issues reported there before going to the plugin forum.
If you like this plugin, then consider checking out our other projects:
CodeinWP Blog – Designer’s Guide To WordPress
Revive.Social – Social Media Tools
JustFreeThemes – Free WordPress Themes directory
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
The icons are not showing!
Make sure that your active theme is using the default walker for displaying the nav menu. If it’s using its own custom walker, make sure that the menu item titles are filterable (please consult your theme author about this).
The icon positions don’t look right
If you’re comfortable with editing your theme stylesheet, then you can override the styles from there.
If you have Jetpack installed, you can also use its Custom CSS module.
Otherwise, I recommend you to use the Advanced CSS plugin.
Some font icons are not rendering correctly
This is a bug with the font icon itself. When the font is updated, this plugin will update its font too.
How do I use css file from CDN?
You can use the icon_picker_icon_type_stylesheet_uri filter, eg:
/** * Load Font Awesome's CSS from CDN * * @param string $stylesheet_uri Icon type's stylesheet URI. * @param string $icon_type_id Icon type's ID. * @param Icon_Picker_Type_Font $icon_type Icon type's instance.
Is this plugin extendable?
Certainly! Here’s how you can remove an icon type from your plugin/theme:
/** * Remove one or more icon types * * Uncomment one or more line to remove icon types * * @param array $types Registered icon types. * @return array */ function my_remove_menu_icons_type( $types ) { // Dashicons //unset( $types['dashicons'] );
// Elusive //unset( $types['elusive'] );
// Font Awesome //unset( $types['fa'] );
I don’t want the settings meta box. How do I remove/disable it?
Add this block of code to your mu-plugin file:
add_filter( 'menu_icons_disable_settings', '__return_true' );
Latest changelog entry
- Updated internal dependencies: Enhanced performance and security.
Version 0.13.12 (2024-04-01)
Screenshots
Menu Editor 
Icon selection 
Twenty Fourteen with Dashicons 
Twenty Fourteen with Genericons
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#631 by installs
Better Font Awesome
Add Font Awesome Free icons that stay current automatically, with a native WordPress block, shortcodes, a Classic Editor picker, and legacy support.
- Installs
- 60,000+
- Rating
- 4.5 (88)
- Updated
- 51 days ago
Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.