5 Best WP Font Awesome Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
WP Font Awesome has 10,000+ 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 WP Font Awesome
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Advanced Custom Fields
Closest matchAdvanced 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, FontAwesome tags on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
- 2
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 10 times the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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4.5 (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 Font Awesome tag on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, last updated 3 days ago.
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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. A similar number of installs, last updated June 15, 2026.
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5.0 (29) 40,000+ active installsEasily add SVG icons and graphics to the WordPress block editor.
Shares the icon tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated January 18, 2026.
Switching from WP Font Awesome: common questions
What is the best alternative to WP Font Awesome?
Advanced Custom Fields is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 90,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which WP Font Awesome alternative has the most users?
Menu Icons, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which WP Font Awesome alternative is rated highest?
Menu Icons, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 849 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these WP 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 WP 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 WP 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
Advanced Custom Fields is the closest match to WP Font Awesome by the data we track, and Menu Icons has the widest reach with 100,000+ 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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