Including Font Awesome in a Custom Theme

How do I add font awesome to my WordPress theme?
How do I add font awesome to my project?
How do I use Font Awesome locally?
How do I use downloaded font awesome?
Where do I put Font Awesome icons?
How do I link Font Awesome?
Can you download font awesome icons?
How do you change the color of font awesome icons?
Why is Font Awesome not working?
Does bootstrap include font awesome?
Can I use font awesome offline?
How do I use Font Awesome 5 icons?

How do I add font awesome to my WordPress theme?

How to Manually Add Font Awesome Icons to WordPress

Step 1: Enqueue Font Awesome Stylesheet in Your WordPress Theme.
Step 2: Insert Font Awesome Icons.
Step 1: Install and Activate the Plugin.
Step 2: Insert Font Awesome Icons.
Change the Size of Font Awesome Icons.
Rotate Font Awesome Icons.

How do I add font awesome to my project?

PRO: Custom LESS

Copy the font-awesome directory into your project.
Open your project's bootstrap/bootstrap.less and replace. @import "sprites.less"; ...
Open your project's font-awesome/variables. ...
Re-compile your LESS if using a static compiler. ...
Check out the examples to start using Font Awesome!

How do I use Font Awesome locally?

8 Answers

Download the fontawesome package from their website.
Extract the package where you will find the fontawesome. css file.
Copy this file to your css directory.
copy all the fonts files from the extracted fontawesome package to your fonts folder.
Finally add the fontawesome.

How do I use downloaded font awesome?

Using Web Fonts with CSS

Copy the entire /webfonts folder and the /css/all. css into your project's static assets directory (or where ever you prefer to keep front end assets or vendor stuff). Add a reference to the copied /css/all. css file into the <head> of each template or page that you want to use Font Awesome on.

Where do I put Font Awesome icons?

You can place Font Awesome icons just about anywhere using a style prefix and the icon's name. We've tried to make it so that icons take on the characteristics and appear alongside text naturally.

How do I link Font Awesome?

Download & Customize Easy

Copy the entire font-awesome directory into your project.
In the <head> of your html, reference the location to your font-awesome. min. css. <link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css">
Check out the examples to start using Font Awesome!

Can you download font awesome icons?

Who can Download? Several sheets of Font Awesome icons and illustrations ready for crayons, creativity, and coloring - great for kids and kids at heart.

How do you change the color of font awesome icons?

To change the color of the icons, simply add or change the “color” property in the CSS. So to change the color of the icons to red in the above example, add “color:red” to the .

Why is Font Awesome not working?

Make sure you're using the latest and greatest by updating your CDN code reference, updating your Font Awesome package via npm, or downloading a fresh copy of Font Awesome. You can check with version an icon was added to on its detail page (e.g. question-circle was added in Verion 1 but last updated in 5.0. 0).

Does bootstrap include font awesome?

Using Font Awesome Icons in Bootstrap

One of the most popular and highly compatible external icon library for Bootstrap is Font Awesome. It provides over 675 icons which are available in SVG, PNG, as well as in web font format for better usability and scalability.

Can I use font awesome offline?

Go to font awesome official website and download free zip file, extract it and link this to your page, done..! To be able to use font awesome offline you would have to manually download the icons to your local computer.

How do I use Font Awesome 5 icons?

To use the Free Font Awesome 5 icons, you can choose to download the Font Awesome library, or you can sign up for an account at Font Awesome, and get a code (called KIT CODE) to use when you add Font Awesome to your web page.