Best font awesome plugins for WordPress
The most popular font awesome plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Menu Icons by Themeisle leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Advanced Custom Fields (90K+) and Better Font Awesome (60K+). All 44 plugins tagged “Font Awesome” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 font awesome plugins
- 1.
Menu Icons by ThemeisleThe most installed font awesome plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 851 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Advanced Custom Fields90K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 36 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Better Font Awesome60K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 88 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 4.
WP Font Awesome10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 9 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 5.
JVM Rich Text Icons3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 6.
Block for Font Awesome Icons1K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 6 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.
Spectre Icons800+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 4 months ago.
- 8.
Shortcode for Font Awesome700+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.
Icon Box Block600+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
CMB2 Field Type300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
All 44 plugins tagged “Font Awesome”
Menu Icons by Themeisle
Down in the last 7 days:1#307by Themeisle7 days ago
Add icons to WordPress navigation menus easily — pick from Font Awesome, Dashicons, image icons & more. Style menu items with custom colors & sizes.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.9(851)
- Downloads
- 1K/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Up in the last 7 days:1#484by Justin Kruit2 months ago
Adds a new 'Font Awesome Icon' field to the popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.9(36)
- Downloads
- 583/day
Better Font Awesome
Up in the last 7 days:1#630by Mickey Kay2 months ago
Add Font Awesome Free icons that stay current automatically, with a native WordPress block, shortcodes, a Classic Editor picker, and legacy support.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.5(88)
- Downloads
- 244/day
WP Font Awesome
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,085by Zayed Baloch2 years ago
This plugin allows you to easily embed Font Awesome icon to your site with simple shortcodes.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(9)
- Downloads
- 30/day
JVM Rich Text Icons
#4,081by Joris van Montfort1 month ago
Insert icons anywhere in your content — inline in text, headings, buttons, or as a standalone block.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 34/day
Block for Font Awesome Icons
Up in the last 7 days:9#6,282by Ciprian Popescu1 month ago
For anyone who wants Font Awesome icons in the block editor without class names or a heavy icon font: search, click, done. Free icons render as SVG.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Spectre Icons
Up in the last 7 days:55#7,603by phcdevworks4 months ago
Adds Lucide, Font Awesome, and uploaded SVG icon libraries to Elementor's icon picker.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Shortcode for Font Awesome
Up in the last 7 days:26#7,837by smgwebdesign1 month ago
Display Font Awesome icons with a shortcode. Requires Font Awesome to be loaded separately by your theme or another plugin.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Icon Box Block
Down in the last 7 days:7#8,352by Plugin Envision2 months ago
Icon Box is a straightforward block for the Gutenberg editor that lets you place a stylish icon with text inside a fully customizable box.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
CMB2 Field Type
Down in the last 7 days:18#10,293by Serkan Algur7 years ago
Font Awesome icon selector for powerful custom metabox generator CMB2
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Icon Fonts
Down in the last 7 days:11#10,562by sydcode11 years ago
This plugin adds support for 18 free icon fonts (over 6000 icons).
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Enqueue Font Awesome CDN
Up in the last 7 days:30#13,707by jp211211 years ago
Automatically enqueue the Font Awesome font and CSS toolkit from the MaxCDN network.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Perfect Font Awesome Integration
Up in the last 7 days:48#13,778by WPOrbit Support1 year ago
Perfectly Integrates latest font awesome icons with your wordpress site as well as adds an Icon insert button in Tiny MCE wordpress editor.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Update Icon for Twitter X
Up in the last 7 days:6#15,216by nicunarcisbodea1 year ago
Transform your website's Twitter icon into the latest stylish X icon effortlessly!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Fontawesome
Down in the last 7 days:61#15,403by Andrew Gunn10 years ago
Add FontAwesome css icons to your site.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
NM Font Awesome
Down in the last 7 days:67#15,715by Mykhailo Nykoliuk7 years ago
Wordpress plugin that adds the latest version 5 of Font Awesome into your WordPress project.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Type Icons
Up in the last 7 days:75#16,877by Matthew Boynes12 years ago
Quickly and easily add Font Awesome icons to your custom post types.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CFS Font Awesome
Up in the last 7 days:50#16,966by Chetan Prajapati10 years ago
Font Awesome Field for Custom Field Suite
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Surbma
Up in the last 7 days:9#17,473by Surbma1 year ago
Font Awesome - The iconic font and CSS toolkit
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Social Media Icons WP
Down in the last 7 days:33#17,706by Niriksha Patel9 months ago
Add social media icons using Font Awesome or custom images. Easily sort, style, and display icons anywhere via shortcode.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day
WP Page Title With Icon
Down in the last 7 days:149#18,754by Vidya L1 year ago
A simple plugin to display icons along with posts/pages title.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SVG Heroicons Block
Up in the last 7 days:379#20,036by mlaroy2 years ago
A Gutenberg block for Heroicons, an open source set of SVG icons at https://heroicons.com. ⚠️ Note: This is not an offical plugin from Tailwind Labs …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Fontallic Easypromoweb
Down in the last 7 days:72#22,006by danichimc7 years ago
Font Awesome Icons and more in the visual editor with filter-search and rich content editing at your fingertips
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Block
Up in the last 7 days:457#22,099by yukyhendiawan5 months ago
Add and customize Font Awesome icons in the block editor — a lightweight Icon block that renders crisp inline SVG.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bootstrap and Font Awesome by HocWP Team
Up in the last 7 days:55#24,269by skylarkcob9 years ago
The easiest way to load Twitter Bootstrap and Font Awesome on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Apiro Icons
Up in the last 7 days:90#27,316by Fakhrul Alam3 months ago
Loads a collected set of free stylesheets and registers icons into Elementor Icon Manager.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Article Feedback
#29,144by themeidol10 years ago
Add "Was this article helpful?" at the Start/End or on both of content with Thumbsup to Share and Thumbsdown for feedback to author.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Shortcodes for Font Awesome
Up in the last 7 days:276#29,748by joho686 months ago
Generate inline HTML with Font Awesome icon libray by using shortcodes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
NextGEN Font Awesome On
Up in the last 7 days:134#29,902by Scott Wyden Kivowitz7 years ago
Activate NextGEN Gallery’s enqueue of Font Awesome always on your site. Take advantage of an amazing font library.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rundiz Font Awesome
Up in the last 7 days:1,252#29,939by vee2 months ago
Use Font Awesome from your host and update from GitHub.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Icon Grid
Down in the last 7 days:2#29,978by Websites Built For You5 years ago
Easily display grids of icons using shortcodes, widgets and Gutenberg blocks
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Convert Emoticons Font Awesome
Down in the last 7 days:211#30,584by Gallagher Website Design6 years ago
Converts emoticons to Font Awesome icons.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rich Menu Details
Up in the last 7 days:1,798#31,408by aanees612 months ago
Add icons and subtext to WordPress menus with per-item controls. Lightweight, modern, and works with any theme.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Title Icons
Up in the last 7 days:466#32,449by TWS10 years ago
Post Title Icons lets you set icons for all your blog posts. Either for all or for a specific category.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Font Awesome Easy Way
Up in the last 7 days:5,589#36,137by Lukasz Jasinski13 years ago
Easily insert font awesome 4.0 icons as shortcodes. Coming soon editor plugin and customization options
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Attach Font Awesome
Down in the last 7 days:1,806#37,593by afshintalebi9 years ago
This plugin add font awesome library to the front of wordpress site and you can put font awesome css classes anywhere in your contents.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPBatch icons Shortcode
#39,170by Md. Toriqul Mowla12 years ago
Best, Easiest and Most Stylish icons Using Shortcode
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Coothemes Icons
#39,179by coothemes8 years ago
Easily and quickly use 2,000+ beautifully designed SVG font icons on your website
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Ultimate Icon Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:439#41,664by Shane Jones13 years ago
This plugin will add a small button to your post / page editor, clicking on that will bring up our visual icon selector. Choose the icon you want and …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Font Awesome Field
Up in the last 7 days:2,984#43,732by tormorten12 years ago
Adds a metabox with a field where you can select a Font Awesome icon.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
RSG Compiled Libraries
#44,674by Ryner Galaus7 years ago
Includes common libraries used for development. It also comes with simple functions that are widely used on a website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Font Awesome Icon
Up in the last 7 days:2,757#50,575by jomol8 years ago
Simple Font Awesome plugin will give you the option for adding Font Awesome icons for your post and pages in the form of a meta box.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
External Link Icon for Gutenberg
#55,841by Owadud7 months ago
A Gutenberg block for creating a link with a Dashicon or Font Awesome icon. Per-block, not global.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Ed's Font Awesome
Down in the last 7 days:9,623#69,512by waianaeboy7026 months ago
Ed's Font Awesome Plugin is the ultimate Font Awesome Icon Shortcode plugin with 2,000+ icons, animations, layers, and color support.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day