Tags: icons, font-awesome, font icon, UI, icon font, bootstrap Requires at least: 3.0 Tested up to: 4.7.0
Enables easy use of the Font Awesome icon font set from within WordPress. Icons can be inserted using either HTML, shortcode, or a built-in TinyMCE plugin.
Font Awesome is a pictographic font set of 675 icons. The icons are infinitely scalable and screen reader compatible.
A full list of the 675 Font Awesome icons is available: FontAwesomeIconsCheatsheet.pdf
To use any of the Font Awesome icons on your WordPress site you have three options:
HTML
All code examples on the Font Awesome site apply: http://fontawesome.io/examples/
Examples
Pencil icon
<i class="icon-pencil"></i>
Phone icon
<i class="icon-phone"></i>
Chevron left icon
<i class="icon-chevron-left"></i>
Shortcode
Don't want to worry about HTML tags? You can use a shortcode in your posts, pages and even widgets to display a Font Awesome icon.
The shortcode to use is [icon name=name-of-icon], where name=X is the class of the icon you would like to use.
Examples
Pencil icon
[icon name=icon-pencil]
Phone icon
[icon name=icon-phone]
Chevron left icon
[icon name=icon-chevron-left]
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