Loading icons conflicts with social networking buttons

#1 · April 18, 2019, 4:04 pm

Thomas, hello!
On my site after the last update, the social network buttons disappeared in the footer of the site: https://erenbur.ru/discussion
If I deactivate the forum plugin, they appear. If I remove the tick in the “Load Font Awesome icon library” setting, social network buttons appear, but the icons in the forum disappear.
The site has a professional version of the Colormag theme: https://themegrill.com/themes/colormag/

Maybe when you next update the plugin, make a folder with icons right in the plugin and let the forum take them straight from there?

#2 · April 18, 2019, 6:49 pm

Same problem https://kam-news.ru/forum
I had to roll back to version 1.13.3

#3 · April 18, 2019, 8:53 pm

Hello @erenbur @rusev

Asgaros Forum uses a Font Awesome-library which is included directly within the plugin (in the /libs-folder). The main problem seems to be that a lot of WordPress themes and plugins are using an old outdated version of Font Awesome (v4). Asgaros Forum uses the latest version 5 of Font Awesome. Unfortunately, the css-rules are not compatible between each other so when a website is using both versions, a component which relies on another version is not displaying correctly.

Can you please try if the following can fix the issue:

Edit the header.php-file of your theme with the theme-editor (Appearance -> Theme Editor) or manually
Before the closing </head> tag add the following line of code:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.8.1/css/v4-shims.css">

After saving the changes and clearing the browser cache, please let me know if the icons work again (the “Load Font Awesome icon library”-option must be activated for this).

If this fix the issue, I can include it in a new Asgaros Forum-update.

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#4 · April 18, 2019, 10:08 pm

@asgaros

After inserting the code into the header of the site, social network buttons appeared.

Спасибо! 🙂

#5 · April 19, 2019, 2:43 pm

@asgaros Thank!
I’ll check it out at night. During the day many users use the forum.

#6 · April 19, 2019, 7:07 pm

I updated the plugin to 1.14.2, deleted the line in the header, everything works fine.

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#7 · April 19, 2019, 9:12 pm

Happy to hear that everything works fine now.

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#8 · April 19, 2019, 11:41 pm

Hi @asgaros

Successfully updated to 1.14.2.
Everything is working https://kam-news.ru/forum
Even earned a poll.

Thank you very much!

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