Suggestion: Allow Font Awesome Icons in Forum Icons
Quote from Techie Jinji on May 29, 2018, 7:00 pmHi,
I have added CSS to my WordPress site to allow me to use Font Awesome’s font-based icons across the site, as detailed here: https://www.w3schools.com/icons/fontawesome_icons_intro.asp. I was disappointed to see that I cannot use these icons as Forum icons on Asgaros Forum, as WordPress’ Dashicons lack appropriate icons for some of the categories; and I wondered if support could be added in a future release. Alternatively, I would be pleased to know if there is a modification I can make to the Forum to add such support.
Hi,
I have added CSS to my WordPress site to allow me to use Font Awesome’s font-based icons across the site, as detailed here: https://www.w3schools.com/icons/fontawesome_icons_intro.asp. I was disappointed to see that I cannot use these icons as Forum icons on Asgaros Forum, as WordPress’ Dashicons lack appropriate icons for some of the categories; and I wondered if support could be added in a future release. Alternatively, I would be pleased to know if there is a modification I can make to the Forum to add such support.
Quote from Asgaros on June 2, 2018, 8:41 pmHello @techie-jinji
At the moment I dont plan to other third-party libraries like Font Awesome directly to the core because it would require me to maintain them and provide new updates as soon as new versions of those libraries are available. I also want to avoid incompatibilities with other plugins/themes when they already use another version of Font Awesome.
But its relatively easy to use Font Awesome icons for your forums when you are a little bit used to css. Here is an example on how to change the icon of a forum which has the id 29:
#af-wrapper #forum-29 .forum-status:before { content: "\f090"; font-family: "FontAwesome"; }
Hello @techie-jinji
At the moment I dont plan to other third-party libraries like Font Awesome directly to the core because it would require me to maintain them and provide new updates as soon as new versions of those libraries are available. I also want to avoid incompatibilities with other plugins/themes when they already use another version of Font Awesome.
But its relatively easy to use Font Awesome icons for your forums when you are a little bit used to css. Here is an example on how to change the icon of a forum which has the id 29:
#af-wrapper #forum-29 .forum-status:before {
content: "\f090";
font-family: "FontAwesome";
}