FA WP Admin Menu Icons Plugin

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FA WP Admin Menu Icons allows you to use Font Awesome icons for WordPress custom post types and custom menu pages by passing the Font Awesome class string, just like using Font Awesome on the front end

Here’s an example:

register_post_type( 'custom_post_type', [ //... 'menu_icon' => 'fa-solid fa-thumbs-up', //... ] ); 

Usage

`register_post_type()`

To use a Font Awesome icon for your custom post type with register_post_type(), use a Font Awesome class string for the $args['menu_icon] parameter:

register_post_type( 'custom_post_type', [ //... 'menu_icon' => 'fa-solid fa-thumbs-up', //... ] ); 

`add_menu_page()`

To use a Font Awesome icon for your custom menu page with add_menu_page(), use a Font Awesome class string for the $icon_url parameter:

add_menu_page( page_title: 'Custom Menu Page', menu_title: 'Custom Menu Page', capability: 'manage_options', menu_slug: 'custom_menu_page', icon_url: 'fa-solid fa-thumbs-up', ); 

Custom Post Type UI plugin

To use a Font Awesome icon with the Custom Post Type UI plugin, use a Font Awesome class string for the Menu Icon field when adding or editing a Post Type

Caveats

FA WP Admin Menu Icons only supports Font Awesome’s free icons

WordPress Admin Dashboard

In your WordPress Admin Dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New, search for ‘fa wp admin menu icons’, then click Install Now

Read more about automatic plugin installation with the WordPress Admin Dashboard

WP-CLI

Install with WP-CLI by running the following command:

wp plugin install fa-wp-admin-menu-icons --activate 

Install with Composer

1. Follow the setup instructions for WordPress Packagist
2. Require wpackagist-plugin/fa-wp-admin-menu-icons

Install with Git

Install with Git by running the following commands:

cd <wp-content>/plugins git clone [email protected]:patrik-csak/fa-wp-admin-menu-icons.git 

1. 

   Screenshot of WordPress Admin Dashboard menu with an example custom post type and custom menu page which use the Font Awesome flag icon

2. 

   Screenshot of Custom Post Type UI Menu Icon field populated with 'fa-solid fa-thumbs-up'

8.4.0

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• Upgrade Font Awesome from v6.5.2 to v6.6.0

8.3.0

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• Upgrade Font Awesome from v6.5.1 to v6.5.2

8.2.0

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• Decreased icon size to be more similar to Dashicons

8.1.1

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• Require PHP v8.1 in readme.txt

8.1.0

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• Upgrade Font Awesome from v6.5.0 to v6.5.1

8.0.0

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• Upgrade Font Awesome from v6.4.0 to v6.5.0
• Require PHP v8.1+

7.2.0

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• Upgrade Font Awesome to v6.4.0

7.1.0

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• Upgrade Font Awesome to v6.3.0

7.0.0

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• Require PHP v8.0+

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• Support for Font Awesome v4 icons
• Fawpami\\faVersion filter

6.0.0

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• Require PHP v7.4+
• Test with WordPress v5.9

5.0.1

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• Upgrade Font Awesome to v5.15.4
• Test with WordPress v5.8.1

5.0.0

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• Upgrade Font Awesome to v5.15.1
• Test with WordPress v5.5.3
• Drop support for PHP v7.2

4.1.0

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• Test with WordPress v5.2.1
• Upgrade Font Awesome to v5.13.0

4.0.0

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• Support for EOL PHP versions

3.9.1

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• Restore support for EOL PHP versions because it’s a breaking change

3.9.0

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• Upgrade Font Awesome to v5.12.1

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• Support for EOL PHP versions

3.8.0

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.9.0 to v5.11.2

3.7.0

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• Test with WordPress v5.2.1
• Add support for PHP v7.3

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.6.0 to v5.9.0

3.6.0

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.5.0 to v5.6.0

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.4.2 to v5.5.0

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.4.1 to v5.4.2

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.3.1 to v5.4.1

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.2.0 to v5.3.1

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.1.0 to v5.2.0

3.0.0

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• Initialize the plugin earlier in the WP lifecycle

2.8.0

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• Tested with WordPress v4.9.6

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.0.13 to v5.1.0

2.7.0

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.0.12 to v5.0.13

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.0.11 to v5.0.12

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.0.10 to v5.0.11

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• Update Font Awesome from v5.0.9 to v5.0.10

2.3.1

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• Update README.txt changelog

2.3.0

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• Bump Font Awesome version from 5.0.8 to 5.0.9

2.2.1

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• Fix styles action

2.2.0

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• Add support for Font Awesome versions. Icons are now cached with their Font Awesome version so they can be updated when the Font Awesome version changes.

2.1.0

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• Add links to changelog
• Add links to readme badges
• Integrate Travis and Code Climate test coverage

Changed

• Instead of storing all icons in the plugin, get them remotely, as needed, and cache them in the database for future use
• Make hooks code DRYer
• Stop using static methods, to make testing easier
• Make icons smaller so they look better next to Dashicons
• Update Font Awesome shims

2.0.1

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• Add CC BY 4.0 attribution in icons/README.md to adhere to Font Awesome license

Fixed

• Fix old syntax in readme examples
• Add missing ‘Usage’ section to README.txt

2.0.0

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• Add unit tests

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• Upgrade to Font Awesome 5 icons and class syntax
• Use PSR instead of WordPress for code style

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• Deprecate use of Font Awesome 4 class syntax

1.0.4

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• Format code

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• Remove caveat from documentation because it no longer applies

1.0.3

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• Add more icons

1.0.2

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• Fix undefined index

1.0.1

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• Add icons to icons/. The directory was empty on the WordPress plugin repository.

1.0.0