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WP Font Awesome

by Zayed Baloch · Uncategorized

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This plugin allows you to easily embed Font Awesome icon to your site with simple shortcodes.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
56 Health · C
Maintenance 23/100
Rating quality 84/100
Support 70/100

56 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

10K+

Active installs

≈14K estimated

153.8K

Total downloads

since 2015

4.32★

Rating (adjusted)

4.9★ raw · 9 reviews

+31%

390

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

66 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 31/100
WP compatibility 88/100
Rating quality 63/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 781 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+31% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

390

now · peak 8.0K

39830d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

WP Font Awesome · #2085 you NM Font Awesome · #15390 Shortcodes for Font · #31029 WPBatch icons Shortc · #33427

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.9Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

40per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.1y ago

latest release · v1.8.0

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.8.0 · 2.1y ago1.7.7 · 4.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 73% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.8 73%
v1.7 26%
v1.5 0.6%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10K–20K ≈14K

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-09-25 · 1,437 observations

10KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price.

Ratings · 9 reviews

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5★
8 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.8.0
Last updated
2.1y ago
Added
2015-08-06 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.2
Tested up to
6.6.7
Requires PHP
5.6
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ chicho1969
    2.9y ago

    Install the plugin and go. Works perfect.

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  2. ★★★★★ Seb Fontan
    4.5y ago

    The developer is responsive and the plugin works like a charm. This is by far the most straightforward Font Awesome plugin for WordPress.

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  3. ★★★★★ vast1r
    4.8y ago

    Exactly it’s what i wanted, Font awesome icon locally loaded. Please keep it updated. I don’t know why 10k active people but very less review. Really great work guys, keep it up. 👍👍

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  4. ★★★★★ Yongjun Jung
    5.6y ago

    Works great (especially, if you know how HTML and CSS) and it is constantly updated to be compatible with the latest WordPress.

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  5. ★★★★★ Génesis
    6.1y ago

    It does what it promises. 🙂

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  6. ★★★★★ SVTX
    8.1y ago

    This even works with the default tags i.e. <i class="fas fa-stroopwafel fa-lg"></i> and it loads the fontawesome icons locally, from your own server. That’s what you want because CDN’s require data processing agreements and stuff like that. This is way easier, lightweight and simple. Edit: Hmm, doesn’t seem to work on all my sites.. o.O

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  7. ★★★★★ peebz
    8.9y ago

    Works like a charm. Enough said.

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  8. ★★★★★ SDM36
    10.0y ago

    Great plugin, easy to style, top stuff

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 1.7.9 Security fixes 1.7.9
  2. — Version 1.7.8 Updated FontAwesom to v6 1.7.8
  3. — Version 1.7.7 Updated FontAwesom to v5.15 1.7.7
  4. — Version 1.7.6 Fixed font load issue. 1.7.6
  5. — Version 1.7.5 Add Font Awesome icon from editor Toolbar button. Updated FontAwesom to v5.12 1.7.5
  6. — Version 1.7.4 Updated FontAwesom to v5.4 1.7.4

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. Medium · 6.4 WP Font Awesome <= 1.7.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode ↗
    2023-10-23 CVE-2023-5127 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.7.9 Patched in 1.8.0
  2. Medium · 6.4 WP Font Awesome <= 1.7.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode ↗
    2023-01-24 CVE-2023-0271 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.7.8 Patched in 1.7.9

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.5

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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).

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