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Guide: How to Load Font Awesome 5 - by thisisbolo

This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 11 months ago ago by Olga Barlow

thisisbolo

Participant

January 13, 2018 at 17:54
For anyone interested in loading Font Awesome 5 into the current theme until it’s released in a theme update you can do the following.

Add this into your functions.php (use your child theme)
```
/******************************************************************************/
/**************************** Load Font Awesome 5 *****************************/
/******************************************************************************/

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'enqueue_load_fa' );
function enqueue_load_fa() {
 
    wp_enqueue_style( 'load-fa', 'https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.2/css/all.css' );
```
Then call it in. There’s some slight differences between FA4 and FA5. So take a moment to read up on them to use it properly.

https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/svg-with-js

This is just a quick hack, might not be the best approach and may affect your site loading times since you’re loading up 2 libraries. Ideally, this should be removed when the themes updated with the new icon pack.

Temporary solution only! Just sharing. If anyone knows a better solution, please share. This is only what I discovered.
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Olga Barlow

Support staff

January 15, 2018 at 17:19

Hello,

Thank you for your temporary solution!
We plan to update FontAwesome in one of the next updates.

Regards

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