Description
Use Font Awesome icons for custom post types and custom menu pages.
register_post_type( 'custom_post_type', [
//...
'menu_icon' => 'fas fa-thumbs-up',
//...
] );
FA WP Admin Menu Icons on GitHub
Usage
FA WP Admin Menu Icons works for the following WordPress functions:
register_post_type()add_menu_page()
Custom post type
register_post_type( 'custom_post_type', [
//...
'menu_icon' => 'fas fa-thumbs-up',
//...
] );
Custom menu page
add_menu_page(
'Custom Menu Page',
'Custom Menu Page',
'manage_options',
'custom_menu_page',
'',
'fas fa-thumbs-up', // $icon_url
);<h3>Requirements</h3>
– WordPress v4.4+
– PHP v7.3+
– SimpleXML PHP extension (enabled by default)
Caveats
FA WP Admin Menu Icons only supports Font Awesome’s free icons
Screenshots
Installation
Composer
$ composer require wpackagist-plugin/fa-wp-admin-menu-icons
Git
$ cd <wp-content>/plugins
$ git clone git@github.com:ptrkcsk/fa-wp-admin-menu-icons.git
WordPress
Reviews
Ogwekkuminogumu (Museenene) 9, 2021
I needed a horse menu icon. My custom one looked terrible. This was perfect. Installed and working in 2 minutes, so easy!
Muzigo 7, 2019
I don't know what the reviewer below is crying about in terms of a ReadMe, the description lists all you need to know.
I had my font awesome menu icon displaying in seconds thanks to this. Appreciate the author's time to create and distribute! 🙂
Ogwekkumi (Mukulukusa) 16, 2018
Did exactly what I needed, to be able to use Font Awesome together with the Custom Post Type UI plugin. You just add the Font Awesome class as the Menu Icon. Thanks a lot!
Ogwomwenda (Mutunda) 26, 2018
Clearly, it isn't "plug" and play. After install, I couldn't figure out what it changed, where to change stuff at (icons to the menu). No documentation on how to use after install.
Kasambula 6, 2017
Very easy to put in fontawesome icons, so I don't just have to choose from the boring old dashicons.
Contributors & Developers
“FA WP Admin Menu Icons” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
6.0.0
Changed
- Require PHP v7.4+
- Test with WordPress v5.9
5.0.1
Changed
- Upgrade Font Awesome to v5.15.4
- Test with WordPress v5.8.1
5.0.0
Changed
- Upgrade Font Awesome to v5.15.1
- Test with WordPress v5.5.3
- Drop support for PHP v7.2
4.1.0
Changed
- Test with WordPress v5.2.1
- Upgrade Font Awesome to v5.13.0
4.0.0
Removed
- Support for EOL PHP versions
3.9.1
Added
- Restore support for EOL PHP versions because it’s a breaking change
3.9.0
Changed
- Upgrade Font Awesome to v5.12.1
Removed
- Support for EOL PHP versions
3.8.0
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.9.0 to v5.11.2
3.7.0
Added
- Test with WordPress v5.2.1
- Add support for PHP v7.3
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.6.0 to v5.9.0
3.6.0
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.5.0 to v5.6.0
3.5.0
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.4.2 to v5.5.0
3.4.0
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.4.1 to v5.4.2
3.3.0
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.3.1 to v5.4.1
3.2.0
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.2.0 to v5.3.1
3.1.0
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.1.0 to v5.2.0
3.0.0
Changed
- Initialize the plugin earlier in the WP lifecycle
2.8.0
Added
- Tested with WordPress v4.9.6
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.0.13 to v5.1.0
2.7.0
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.0.12 to v5.0.13
2.6.0
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.0.11 to v5.0.12
2.5.0
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.0.10 to v5.0.11
2.4.0
Changed
- Update Font Awesome from v5.0.9 to v5.0.10
2.3.1
Changed
- Update README.txt changelog
2.3.0
Changed
- Bump Font Awesome version from 5.0.8 to 5.0.9
2.2.1
Fixed
- Fix styles action
2.2.0
Added
- 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
Added
- 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
Added
- Add CC BY 4.0 attribution in
icons/README.mdto adhere to Font Awesome license
Fixed
- Fix old syntax in readme examples
- Add missing ‘Usage’ section to
README.txt
2.0.0
Added
- Add unit tests
Changed
- Upgrade to Font Awesome 5 icons and class syntax
- Use PSR instead of WordPress for code style
Deprecated
- Deprecate use of Font Awesome 4 class syntax
1.0.4
Changed
- Format code
Removed
- Remove caveat from documentation because it no longer applies
1.0.3
Added
- Add more icons
1.0.2
Fixed
- Fix undefined index
1.0.1
Fixed
- Add icons to
icons/. The directory was empty on the WordPress plugin repository.