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April 4, 2023

How to Use Icon Fonts in WordPress Post Editor (No Code)

Do you want to use icon fonts in the WordPress post editor?

Icon fonts allow you to easily use images and symbols in text. They are lightweight and won’t slow down your site, and they can be easily scaled to any size and styled like any other text font.

In this article, we’ll show you how to easily use icon fonts in the WordPress post editor without writing any HTML code.

We’ll show you multiple methods, each one using a slightly different approach than the other. You can choose one that works best for you.

Method 1. Adding Icon Fonts in WordPress Post Editor using JVM Rich Text Icons

This method is recommended to use on any kind of WordPress website. It is easy to use and works seamlessly with the block editor.

First, you need to install and activate the JVM Rich Text Icons plugin. For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you can simply edit a WordPress post or page or create a new one. Inside the post editor, add a new paragraph block, and you’ll see a new Flag icon in the block toolbar.

Clicking on it will show a popup of icons to choose from. It uses the popular Font Awesome icon fonts by default.

You can use the search to look for an icon or simply scroll down to find the icon you want, and then click to add it.

One advantage of using icon fonts is that you can use CSS to style them.

However, since you are already using the block editor, you can simply use the built-in color tools to style the icons.

The plugin allows you to use icon fonts in most text blocks such as Paragraph, List, Button, Columns, Cover, and more.

Here is an example of using icon fonts and block options to style three columns.

Another useful example of using icon fonts is with buttons.

This time we are using inline icon fonts alongside some text for the two buttons.

Feel free to use the block editor tools like text alignment, colors, spacing, and more to get the most out of the icon fonts.

Method 2. Add Icon Fonts in WordPress Post Editor with Font Awesome

This method requires you to add shortcodes in the post editor to display icon fonts. You can use this method if you don’t need to regularly use icon fonts in your WordPress posts and pages.

First, you need to install and activate the Font Awesome plugin. For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you can edit a post or page in WordPress and use the following shortcode to add a font icon.

[icon name="home"]

The name parameter here is the name of the font used by Font Awesome. You can find the entire list on the Font Awesome cheatsheet page.

Once added, you can preview your post or page to see how the icon will look on the live site since it will not display as an icon in the block editor.

This is how it looked on our test site.

You can use the shortcode inside a paragraph and inline with other text. You can also add it on its own using the ‘Shortcode’ block.

However, using the ‘Shortcode’ block will not give you the styling options you’ll get with other text blocks.

You can also add the shortcode inside columns to create a features row.

It would be a bit trickier as you will not be able to see the actual images, and the column heights will keep changing within the editor.

Here is how it looked on our test website. The columns are the same height, even though they are not in the editor.

You’ll probably have to preview your work in a new browser tab many times to see how it will look to users.

Method 3. Using Icon Fonts with WordPress Page Builders

This method is great if you are creating a landing page or designing your website using a WordPress page builder like SeedProd.

SeedProd is the best WordPress page builder on the market. It allows you to easily create beautiful landing pages or design your complete website.

First, you need to install and activate the SeedProd plugin. For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you’ll be asked to enter your plugin license key. You can find this information under your account on the SeedProd website.

After entering your license key and clicking ‘Verify Key,’ you can start working on your landing page.

Simply go to the SeedProd » Landing Pages page and click on the ‘Add New Landing Page’ button.

After that, you will be asked to choose a template for your landing page.

SeedProd comes with a bunch of beautiful designs that you can use as a starting point, or you can start with a blank template and design the whole thing yourself.

For this tutorial, we will be using a pre-designed template. Simply click on a template to select it and continue.

Next, you will be asked to provide a title for your landing page and choose a URL.

After entering them, click on the ‘Save and Start Editing the Page’ button to continue.

SeedProd will now launch the page builder interface. It is a drag-and-drop design tool where you can simply point and click on any item to edit it.

You can also drag and drop blocks from the left column to add new elements to your design.

For the sake of this tutorial, we are going to add the Icon block.

After you add the block, you can simply click to edit its properties.

The left column will change to show the options for the Icon block. You can click into the ‘Icon’ section to the left and choose a different icon image or change the color and style.

Another way to use icons in SeedProd is by adding the ‘Icon Box’ block.

The difference between this and the ‘Icon’ block we used previously is that ‘Icon Box’ allows you to add text along with your chosen icon.

This is one of the most common ways to use icons when displaying product features, services, and other items.

You can place your icon box inside columns, choose colors, and adjust the icon size to your liking.

Additionally, you can also format the accompanying text using SeedProd’s formatting toolbar.

Once you are finished editing your page, don’t forget to click on the ‘Save’ button at the top right corner of the screen.

If you’re ready, you can click ‘Publish’ for the page to go live, or you can click on ‘Preview’ to make sure it looks like you want it to.

You can also click on ‘Save as Template’ so you can reuse this design with SeedProd on other parts of your website.

Here is how the icon fonts looked on our test website.

We hope this article helped you learn how to use icon fonts in WordPress post editor without writing HTML code. You may also want to see our WordPress performance guide to optimize your website speed or the best landing page plugins for WordPress.

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September 25, 2019February 22, 2023

How to Easily Add Icon Fonts in Your WordPress Theme

Do you want to add icon fonts to your WordPress site?

Icon fonts allow you to add resizable vector icons that are loaded like web fonts, so they don’t slow down your website. You can even style them using CSS to get exactly the look you want.

In this article, we will show you how to easily add icon fonts in your WordPress theme.

What are Icon Fonts and Why You Should Use Them?

Icon fonts contain symbols or small pictures instead of letters and numbers.

You can use these icon fonts to show common images. For example, you can use them with your shopping cart, download buttons, feature boxes, giveaway contests, and even in WordPress navigation menus.

Most visitors will immediately understand what a commonly-used icon means. In this way, you can help visitors find their way around your website and engage with your content.

These pictures can also help you create a multilingual WordPress website, since most people can understand icon fonts no matter what language they speak.

Compared to image-based icons, font icons load much more quickly so they can boost WordPress speed and performance.

There are several open-source icon font sets that you can use for free such as IcoMoon, Genericons, and Linearicons.

In fact, the WordPress software comes with free dashicon icons built-in. These are the icons you can see in the WordPress admin area.

In this guide, we’ll be using Font Awesome as it is the most popular open-source icon set. We use it on WPBeginner, and in all our premium WordPress plugins.

With that said, let’s look at how you can easily add icon fonts in your WordPress theme. Simply use the quick links to jump straight to the method that you want to use.

Method 1. Adding Icon Fonts Using a WordPress Plugin (Easy)
Method 2. Using Icon Fonts with SeedProd (More Customizable)

Method 1. Adding Icon Fonts Using a WordPress Plugin (Easy)

The easiest way to add icon fonts to WordPress is by using the Font Awesome plugin. This allows you to use icon fonts in your pages and posts without modifying your theme files. You’ll also get any new Font Awesome icons automatically every time you update the plugin.

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the Font Awesome plugin. For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you can add a Font Awesome icon to any shortcode block. Simply open the page or post where you want to show the icon font, and then click on the ‘+’ icon.

You can now search for ‘Shortcode’ and select the right block when it appears.

Adding a font icon to WordPress using shortcode

With that done, you can add any Font Awesome icon using the following shortcode:

[icon name="rocket"]

Simply replace “rocket” with the name of the icon that you want to show. To get this name, head over to the Font Awesome site and click on the icon that you want to use.

Choosing an icon font for your WordPress website

In the popup that appears, go ahead and click on the icon’s name.

Font Awesome will now copy the name to your clipboard automatically.

With that done, simply paste the name into the shortcode. You can now click on ‘Publish’ or ‘Update’ to make the icon font live.

Sometimes you may want to show an icon font inside a block of text. For example, you may need to display a ‘copyright’ symbol after a brand name.

To do this, simply paste the shortcode inside any Paragraph block.

You can then use the settings in the right-hand menu to customize the icon, similar to how you customize options for text blocks. For example, you can change the font size.

WordPress will turn the shortcode into a Font Awesome icon for visitors and show it alongside your text.

Another option is to add the shortcode to any widget-ready area.

For example, you can add a Shortcode block to your site’s sidebar or similar section.

For more information, please see our guide on how to use shortcodes in your WordPress sidebar widgets.

You can even add the icon shortcode to columns and create beautiful feature boxes.

An example of a features box on a WordPress website

For detailed instructions, see our guide on how to add feature boxes with icons in WordPress.

Many websites use icon fonts in their menus, to help visitors find their way around. To add an icon, either create a new menu or open an existing menu in the WordPress dashboard.

For step-by-step instructions, check out our beginner’s guide on how to add a navigation menu in WordPress.

Then, click on ‘Screen Options’ and check the box next to ‘CSS Classes.’

Adding CSS classes to a WordPress navigation menu

With that done, simply click to expand the menu item where you want to show the icon.

You should now see a new ‘CSS Classes’ field.

To get an icon’s CSS class, simply find the icon font on the Font Awesome website and give it a click. If you want, then you can change the icon’s style by clicking on the different settings.

In the popup, you’ll see an HTML code snippet. The CSS class is simply the text between the quotation marks. For example, in the following image, the CSS class is fa-solid fa-address-book.

Simply copy the text inside the quotes, then switch back to the WordPress dashboard.

You can now paste the text into the ‘CSS Classes’ field.

To add more icon fonts, simply follow the same process described above.

When you’re happy with how the menu is set up, click on ‘Save.’ Now if you visit your WordPress website you’ll see the updated navigation menu.

An example of icon fonts in a WordPress navigation menu

Method 2. Using Icon Fonts with SeedProd (More Customizable)

If you want more freedom over where you use font icons, then we recommend using a page builder plugin.

SeedProd is the best drag-and-drop WordPress page builder in the market and has over 1400 Font Awesome icons built-in. It also has a ready-made Icon box that you can add to any page using drag and drop.

With SeedProd, it’s easy to create custom pages in WordPress and then show Font Awesome icons anywhere on those pages.

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the plugin. For more details, see our beginner’s guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Note: There is a free version of SeedProd, but we’ll be using the Pro version since it comes with the Icon box.

Upon activation, go to SeedProd » Settings and enter your license key.

You can find this information under your account on the SeedProd website. After entering the license key, go ahead and click the ‘Verify Key’ button.

Next, you need to visit SeedProd » Pages and click on the ‘Add New Landing Page’ button.

Choosing a custom design for your WordPress page

Now, you can choose a template to use as the basis for your page. SeedProd has over 180 professionally-designed templates that you can customize according to your WordPress blog or website’s needs.

To select a template, hover your mouse over it and then click the ‘Checkmark’ icon.

Choosing a professionally-designed template

We’re using the ‘Ebook Sales Page’ template in all our images, but you can use any design you want.

Next, go ahead and type in a name for the custom page. SeedProd will automatically create a URL based on the page’s title, but you can change this URL to anything you want.

When you’re happy with the information you’ve entered, click on the ‘Save and Start Editing the Page’ button.

Adding a title to a SeedProd page design

Next, you’ll be taken to the SeedProd drag-and-drop page builder, where you can customize the template.

The SeedProd editor shows a live preview of your design to the right and some block settings on the left.

Customizing a SeedProd WordPress page template

The left-hand menu also has blocks that you can drag onto your design.

You can drag and drop standard blocks like buttons and images or use advanced blocks such as the contact form, countdown, social share buttons, and more.

Adding blocks a page or post design in WordPress

To customize any block, simply click to select it in your layout.

The left-hand menu will now show all the settings you can use to customize that block. For example, you can often change background colors, add background images, or change the color scheme and fonts to better match your brand.

Creating a custom layout for a WordPress website

To add an icon font to the page, simply find the ‘Icon’ block in the left-hand column and then drag it onto your layout.

SeedProd will show an ‘arrow’ icon by default.

To show a different Font Awesome icon instead, simply click to select the Icon block.

In the left-hand menu, hover your mouse over the icon and then click on the ‘Icon Library’ button when it appears.

You’ll now see all the different Font Awesome icons that you can choose from.

Simply find the font icon that you want to use and give it a click.

SeedProd will now add the icon to your layout.

After choosing an icon, you can change its alignment, color, and size using the settings in the left-hand menu.

You can continue working on the page by adding more blocks and customizing those blocks in the left-hand menu.

When you’re happy with how the page looks, click the ‘Save’ button. You can then select ‘Publish’ to make that page live.

Publishing a custom page layout with a font icon

We hope this article helped you learn how to add icon fonts in your WordPress theme. You can also go through our guide on the best popup plugins compared and how to choose the best web design software.

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