10 Best Better Font Awesome Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Better Font Awesome has 60,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Better Font Awesome
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Shortcodes Ultimate – Content Elements
4.9 (5,924) 400,000+ active installsAdd 50+ shortcodes with live preview for tabs, accordions, buttons, FAQs, sliders and boxes. Works in Block Editor and Classic Editor.
Shares the block-editor, shortcode tags on WordPress.org. About 6.7 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.5, last updated July 24, 2026.
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Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field
4.9 (36) 90,000+ active installsAdds a new 'Font Awesome Icon' field to the popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
Shares the Font Awesome tag on WordPress.org. About 1.5 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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Menu Icons by Themeisle – Add Icons to Navigation Menus
4.9 (849) 100,000+ active installsAdd icons to WordPress navigation menus easily — pick from Font Awesome, Dashicons, image icons & more. Style menu items with custom colors & sizes.
Shares the Font Awesome tag on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.5, last updated 5 days ago.
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5.0 (26) 8,000+ active installsAdds icons automatically to any uploads and/or file links inserted into your blog posts.
Shares the icons tag on WordPress.org. 8,000+ installs against 60,000+, last updated March 28, 2026.
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Menu Image, Icons made easy
4.5 (123) 100,000+ active installsAdds an image or icon in the menu items. You can choose the position of the image (after, before, above, below) or even hide the menu item title.
Shares the icons tag on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, no update since July 20, 2025.
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4.5 (33) 10,000+ active installsAdd custom icon fonts to the built in Elementor icon controls
Shares the icons tag on WordPress.org. 10,000+ installs against 60,000+, no update since October 28, 2024.
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Skyboot Custom Icons for Elementor – Elementor Icons library – 14300+ Icons
5.0 (20) 200,000+ active installsSkyboot Custom Icons for Elementor expands your Elementor icons library with custom icons, perfect for website owners who use the Elementor plugin.
Shares the icons tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 27 days ago.
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5.0 (735) 500,000+ active installsDisable Gutenberg Block Editor and restore the Classic Editor and original Edit Post screen (TinyMCE, meta boxes, etc.).
Shares the block-editor tag on WordPress.org. About 8.3 times the installs, rated 5.0 against 4.5, last updated July 18, 2026.
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Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns
4.9 (213) 200,000+ active installsGutenberg block editor with AI. 70+ Gutenberg blocks, patterns, WooCommerce blocks, post grid, gallery, menu with Gutenberg block library.
Shares the block-editor tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.5, last updated 18 days ago.
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GutenKit – Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor
4.5 (46) 80,000+ active installsGutenKit – Ultimate no-code Gutenberg blocks to design stunning web pages and visually stunning posts in WordPress block editor.
Shares the block-editor tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 8 days ago.
Switching from Better Font Awesome: common questions
What is the best alternative to Better Font Awesome?
Shortcodes Ultimate is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 400,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Better Font Awesome alternative has the most users?
Disable Gutenberg, with 500,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Better Font Awesome alternative is rated highest?
Disable Gutenberg, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 735 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Better Font Awesome alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Better Font Awesome score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Better Font Awesome on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Shortcodes Ultimate is the closest match to Better Font Awesome by the data we track, and Disable Gutenberg has the widest reach with 500,000+ active installs. Menu Icons shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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