Block for Font Awesome

June 26, 2024

Block for Font Awesome Plugin

Display a Font Awesome 5, Font Awesome 6 or Font Awesome kit icon in a Gutenberg block or a custom HTML block.

This plugin allows you to display any Font Awesome 5, Font Awesome 6 or Font Awesome kit icon as an editor block (Gutenberg) or a custom HTML block.

You can also add the icon as HTML code or, inline, by using the [fa class="fas fa-fw fa-phone"] shortcode.

Read more about the Block for Font Awesome plugin here.

Installation

  1. Log into your WordPress site
  2. Install and activate plugin
  3. Add a Font Awesome Icon block

Screenshots

  1. Front-end icon blocks

    Front-end icon blocks

  2. Back-end icon blocks

    Back-end icon blocks

  3. Icon settings

    Icon settings

Changelog

1.4.6

  • FIX: Fix external CSS array not being initialized when saving settings

1.4.5

  • FIX: Fix XSS vulnerability

1.4.4

  • FIX: Fix XSS vulnerability
  • UPDATE: Update Font Awesome 6 to 6.5.2 (from 6.5.1)

1.4.3

  • FIX: Add extra condition for loading Font Awesome 6 + Local stylesheets

1.4.2

  • FEATURE: Add option to add an array of external (or local) stylesheets
  • UPDATE: Update WordPress compatibility

1.4.1

  • FIX: Add nonce to settings page

1.4.0

  • FIX: Fix CSRF vulnerability
  • SECURITY: Restrict directory indexing
  • SECURITY: Make sure all options are sanitized before casting to integer
  • UPDATE: Update WordPress compatibility
  • UPDATE: Update Font Awesome 6 to 6.5.1 (from 6.4.2)

1.3.3

  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome 6 to 6.4.2 (from 6.4.0)

1.3.2

  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility

1.3.1

  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome 6 to 6.4.0 (from 6.2.1)

1.3.0

  • FIX: Fixed Font Awesome kit not being loaded in the back-end
  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome 6 to 6.2.1 (from 6.2.0)

1.2.6

  • FIX: Fixed color picker for new Gutenberg versions (replaced ColorPalette with ColorPicker)
  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome 6 to 6.2.0 (from 6.1.2)

1.2.5

  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
  • UPDATE: Updated description to include Font Awesome 6 and Font Awesome kit icons
  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome 6 to 6.1.2 (from 6.1.1)

1.2.4

  • UPDATE: Updated block editor filter to support WordPress 5.8+
  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress requirements to support WordPress 5.8+

1.2.3

  • FIX: Fixed Font Awesome 6 source being hardcoded to a local path

1.2.2

  • FIX: Fixed Font Awesome 6 source option not being selected

1.2.1

  • UPDATE: Removed hardcoded Font Awesome 6 source files and replaced with CDN versions

1.2.0

  • FEATURE: Added Font Awesome 6 (6.1.1) support
  • FEATURE: Added Font Awesome Kit support
  • FEATURE: Added link target (self or new tab)
  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.15.4 (from 5.15.3)
  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
  • UPDATE: Updated codebase to conform to latest WordPress Coding Standards (WPCS) ruleset
  • UPDATE: Added plugin version parameter to admin.css to fix caching issues

1.1.10

  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.15.3 (from 5.15.2)
  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility

1.1.9

  • FIX: Fixed array and string offset access syntax with curly braces in PHP 8

1.1.8

  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.15.2 (from 5.15.1)

1.1.7

  • FEATURE: Added option to enqueue Font Awesome on front-end
  • FEATURE: Added option to enqueue Font Awesome on back-end
  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility

1.1.6

  • FEATURE: Added icon URL (link)
  • FEATURE: Added icon alignment
  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.15.1 (from 5.15.0)
  • FIX: Added missing translations

1.1.5

  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.15.0 (from 5.14.0)
  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility

1.1.4

  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.14.0 (from 5.13.0)
  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
  • UPDATE: Tested with the latest Gutenberg plugin version

1.1.3

  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.13.0 (from 5.12.1) to include the new COVID-19 icons
  • UPDATE: Tested with the latest Gutenberg plugin version

1.1.2

  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.12.1 (from 5.10.1)
  • UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility

1.1.1

  • FIX: Fixed SVN import
  • UPDATE: Updated plugin assets

1.1.0

  • FIX: Enqueued Font Awesome 5 in admin section (do not depend on other themes and plugins)
  • FIX: Fixed wrong inspector panel label
  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.10.1 (from 5.9.0)
  • UPDATE: Updated description to include the shortcode

1.0.2

  • UPDATE: Added fixed-width parameter
  • UPDATE: Added custom colour picker

1.0.1

  • FIX: Changed plugin initialization to avoid a console error
  • UPDATE: Changed name and slug
  • UPDATE: Updated Font Awesome to 5.9.0 (from 5.8.2)
  • UPDATE: General cleanup

1.0.0

  • Initial release

Details

  • Version: 1.4.6
  • Active installations: 1,000
  • WordPress Version: 5.8
  • Tested up to: 6.6.1
  • PHP Version: 7.1

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