Need Help With Fontawesome Icons

tjblazer, have a look at this page https://www.idhire.com.au and scroll down to the icons. I am assuming that is what you are wanting to achieve. All i did was go to Themes – Customise – Front Page – Front Page Icon Columns. Select the column you want and type in the FA icon code into the column icon ie fa-picture-o is for the landscape type picture in my column one. When looking for the icons make sure it is icons your looking at and not images. Let me know what tyoe of icons your after and I can see if they work in mine.

Robert

Hi Robert!
I tried doing that using icons from the fontawesome website that the theme directs us to but they aren’t loading. It just shows as a white circle as seen on my website. I’m trying to use the accessible icon (wheelchair in motion), balance scales, real estate sign, and a home for my 4 icons for my columns. Is it because they are version 5.0 and that’s not supported by the theme at this time?

@tjblazer The theme now supports both FontAwesome version 4 and 5. You need to first make sure which version you want to use, version 4 is the default. I checked and your website is loading version 4.

Please make sure you’re entering the full icon name, such as fa-home. More information on the icon detail page, for example https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icon/home Also, see this screenshot: https://prntscr.com/pd3ja8

It should show up correctly, like so: https://prntscr.com/pd3jfs I was not sure which real estate sign you were referring to.

Hope that helps!

@tjblazer try these codes
fa-wheelchair-alt
fa-balance-scale
fa-home

and like the Lyrathemes help I am not sure what the real estate icon looks ike to search for its alternative. Let me know how this goes.

@radarrob Thanks for chiming in ??

@lyrathemes, The codes above are for version 4 icons . You mentioned you need to make sure what version you need to use. How can I change my website so I can use version 5. As I think @tjblazer real estate sign is only in version 5. So might need to know how to enable us to use V5 of the fontawesome.

@radarrob

@radarrob Please go to Appearance > General Settings and choose the Font Awesome version you’d like to use.

Wow that was alot easier than I thought it was going to be. @tjblazer will need to do this also so the real estate sign comes up. the code is fa-sign

Much appreciated the help and the promptness also . Thanks
@radarrob

@radarrob You’re welcome!! Would appreciate a review when you get a chance ??

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Thank you for your replies! his is the sign I was talking about for real estate: https://fontawesome.com/icons/sign?style=solid and when I type in “fa-sign”, it’s just showing a square. Any help would be appreciated!

@tjblazer Looks like the fontawesome icon you’re trying to use was recently released and is a part of their latest version. For now, if you can try another icon and we’ll work on a theme update that includes the latest icons as well.

ok thank you, I will substitute for now but could you let me know when the update addresses the issue so that I can swap out the icon for the sign? Thank you!

I’m trying to substitute and none of the icons seem to be working, even ones in version 5. Any advice?

@tjblazer have you adjusted your wordpress to accept the v5 Fontawesome. I did it to mine and I have the real estate sign coming up . Look at https://www.idhire.com.au I will leave it up for a few days for you to see.

If you havent then look at the steps that theme author sent in one of the message above.
or Please go to Appearance > Customise >General Settup and choose the Font Awesome version you’d like to use.
@radarrob

Thank you for your reply! Your site looks awesome! I tried following the steps mentioned above, but it doesn’t work on my end. I’ve chosen other icons in the meantime. Thank you again for all of your help!