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Widget Icon
Enhance your website with 640+ icons designed for Twitter Bootstrap. Just select an icon and display it in any widget on your WordPress site.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.9★ from 13
- Active installs
- 700+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 9 Dec 2013
- Added
- Apr 2013
- Requires WP
- 3.3
- Tested up to
- WP 3.7.41
- Downloads
- 24,874
Our analysis
AI-assistedWidget Icon is a WordPress plugin that allows you to enhance your website with over 640 icons from Font Awesome and Elusive font libraries. You can easily select an icon and display it in any widget on your site, with options for positioning, size, and padding.
This plugin is suitable for users looking to add visual elements to their widgets without extensive coding knowledge. It works with any widget and theme, making it versatile for various WordPress sites.
Best for: This plugin suits WordPress users who want to add icons to their widgets easily.
What it does well
- ✓Includes over 640 icons from Font Awesome and Elusive libraries
- ✓Works with every widget and theme
- ✓Options for icon position, size, and padding
- ✓Allows manual colour selection with a colour-picker
- ✓Supports translations
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in December 2013
- •Tested only up to WordPress version 3.7.41
- •Limited information on support and updates
Verdict
Widget Icon provides a straightforward way to incorporate icons into WordPress widgets, though its age and limited updates may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
dFactory's own description of Widget Icon, lightly tidied.
Widget Icon enhances your website with 640+ beautiful icons from Font Awesome and Elusive font libraries designed for Twitter Bootstrap. You just select a font library, select an icon and display it in any widget on your WordPress site.
For more information, check out plugin page at dFactory or plugin support forum.
Features include:
- Works out-of-the-box with every widget and theme.
- Select from 640+ beautiful icons
- Select from Font Awesome and Elusive icon libraries
- Select icon position
- Set icon padding in pixels or percentage
- Select icon vertical allignment (top, bottom, middle etc.)
- Select icon size (standard, large, x2, x3, x4)
- Automatically use color from widget title or set it manually with color-picker
- .pot file for translations included
You can also use these icons anywhere in your theme.
For Elusive icons
Syntax: <i class="elusive icon-adjust"></i>
For Font Awesome icons
Syntax: <i class="font-awesome icon-adjust"></i>
Translations:
- Chinese – by xiaoyaole
- German – by Matthias Siebler
- Polish – by Bartosz Arendt
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