Ed's Font Awesome

The ultimate Font Awesome plugin for WordPress. Use all of the free font awesome icons in one place.

Features:

• Basic icon shortcode with style, name, size, and color

• Mask icons — combine any two icons

• Mask circle icons — place any icon inside a circle

• Rotate and flip icons

• NEW: Animated icons — spin, pulse, beat, fade, bounce, flip, shake

• NEW: Layered/stacked icons — stack icons, text, and counters

• NEW: Icon links — wrap any icon in a clickable link

• NEW: Color attribute — set icon color on any shortcode

• Font Awesome 6.7.2 included

1.0.2

• Added option for size to require only size attribute without fa- prefix.

1.0.3

• Removed unecessary font-awesome files for thinner plugin size.

1.0.4

• Added Spin feature and mask feature.

1.0.5

• Updated Instructions

2.0

• Updated Font Awesome to vs. 6.7.2. This version Adds X social media icon

2.1

• Security fix: Sanitized and escaped all shortcode attribute outputs to prevent Stored XSS (CVE-2026-2496)

• Applied esc_attr() to all shortcode HTML attribute outputs

• Applied esc_html() to admin notice helper function

• Tested up to WordPress 6.8

3.0.1

• Security: Confirmed all shortcode attributes properly escaped with esc_attr(), esc_html(), esc_url()

• Version bump to clearly differentiate from vulnerable v2.0 (CVE-2026-2496)

3.0

• NEW: Animated icons shortcode [eds_fa_spin] — spin, pulse, beat, fade, bounce, flip, shake

• NEW: Layered/stacked icons [eds_fa_layers] with [eds_fa_layer_icon], [eds_fa_layer_text], [eds_fa_layer_counter]

• NEW: Icon link shortcode [eds_fa_link] — wrap any icon in a clickable link

• NEW: Color attribute added to all icon shortcodes

• Improved: Admin scripts only load on plugin pages (no longer on every admin page)

• Improved: Cleaner code structure with constants and security best practices

• Updated dashboard with full shortcode reference and live previews