FA WP Admin Menu Icons

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 24% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Kitty

   4.8y ago

   I needed a horse menu icon. My custom one looked terrible. This was perfect. Installed and working in 2 minutes, so easy!

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2. ★★★★★ Christian Saborio

   7.3y ago

   I don’t know what the reviewer below is crying about in terms of a ReadMe, the description lists all you need to know. I had my font awesome menu icon displaying in seconds thanks to this. Appreciate the author’s time to create and distribute! 🙂

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3. ★★★★★ Robin Appelblom

   7.9y ago

   Did exactly what I needed, to be able to use Font Awesome together with the Custom Post Type UI plugin. You just add the Font Awesome class as the Menu Icon. Thanks a lot!

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4. ★★★★★ gdengines2

   7.9y ago

   Clearly, it isn’t “plug” and play. After install, I couldn’t figure out what it changed, where to change stuff at (icons to the menu). No documentation on how to use after install.

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5. ★★★★★ ukeboyska

   9.2y ago

   Very easy to put in fontawesome icons, so I don’t just have to choose from the boring old dashicons.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2023-01-04 200+ → 100+ down after 9 days in tier
2. 2022-12-26 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2022-12-25 200+ → 100+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• NM Font Awesome 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
• Font Awesome 400K+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags B
• Better Font Awesome 60K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
• Custom Icons for Elementor and WPBakery 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• WP Font Awesome 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags C
• Icon Widget 4K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D

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FA WP Admin Menu Icons: 100+ active installs, 4.2★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/fa-wp-admin-menu-icons