5 Best Web Icons Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Web Icons has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 5 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 5 closest alternatives to Web Icons
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Better Font Awesome
Closest match4.5 (87) 60,000+ active installsAdd Font Awesome Free icons that stay current automatically, with a native WordPress block, shortcodes, a Classic Editor picker, and legacy support.
Shares the icon font, icons tags on WordPress.org. About 60 times the installs, last updated 2 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. About 8 times the installs, last updated March 28, 2026.
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4.9 (20) 3,000+ active installsFlags Icons Language Switcher.
Shares the icons tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since April 10, 2022.
- 4
4.5 (33) 10,000+ active installsAdd custom icon fonts to the built in Elementor icon controls
Shares the icons tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since October 28, 2024.
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4.6 (30) 10,000+ active installsAllow your visitors to contact you via mobile phones, or access your site's pages instantly.
Shares the icon tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated June 15, 2026.
Switching from Web Icons: common questions
What is the best alternative to Web Icons?
Better Font Awesome is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 60,000+ active installs with a 4.5 out of 5 rating.
Which Web Icons alternative has the most users?
Better Font Awesome, with 60,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Web Icons alternative is rated highest?
Better Font Awesome, rated 4.5 out of 5 by 87 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Web Icons 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 Web Icons 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 Web Icons 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
Better Font Awesome is the closest match to Web Icons by the data we track, and Better Font Awesome has the widest reach with 60,000+ active installs. Better Font Awesome shipped the most recent release, on September 4, 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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