Best icon font plugins for WordPress
The most popular icon font plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Better Font Awesome leads with 60K+ active installs, ahead of Icon Element (40K+) and Web Icons (1K+). All 5 plugins tagged “icon font” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 icon font plugins
- 1.
Better Font AwesomeThe most installed icon font plugin, with 60K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 88 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Icon Element40K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 7 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Web Icons1K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
Hugeicons200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.Surbma
80+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
All 5 plugins tagged “icon font”

Better Font Awesome
Up in the last 7 days:1#630by Mickey Kay1 month 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

Icon Element
Down in the last 7 days:1#867by webangon6 months ago
The ultimate icon-packs for elementor page builder.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.4(7)
- Downloads
- 149/day

Web Icons
Down in the last 7 days:27#5,681by GhozyLab11 months ago
Web Icons plugin gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized. More than 2.5k icons available.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Hugeicons
Up in the last 7 days:91#11,588by Hugeicons10 months ago
Add beautiful Hugeicons to your WordPress site with an easy-to-use icon picker for both classic and block editors.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 2.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Surbma
#17,358by Surbma1 year ago
Font Awesome - The iconic font and CSS toolkit
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day