Title: Widget Icon
Author: dFactory
Published: April 12, 2013
Last modified: December 9, 2013
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# Widget Icon
By [dFactory](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dfactory/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/widget-icon.1.1.3.zip)
* [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/widget-icon/#description)
* [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/widget-icon/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/widget-icon/#installation)
* [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/widget-icon/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-icon/)
## Description
[Widget Icon](http://www.dfactory.eu/plugins/widget-icon/) enhances your website
with 640+ beautiful icons from [Font Awesome](http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/)
and [Elusive](http://aristeides.com/elusive-iconfont/) font libraries designed for
Twitter Bootstrap. You just select a font library, select an icon and display it
in any widget on your WordPress site.
For more information, check out plugin page at [dFactory](http://www.dfactory.eu/)
or plugin [support forum](http://www.dfactory.eu/support/forum/widget-icon/).
#### Features include:
* Works out-of-the-box with every widget and theme.
* Select from 640+ beautiful icons
* Select from Font Awesome and Elusive icon libraries
* Select icon position
* Set icon padding in pixels or percentage
* Select icon vertical allignment (top, bottom, middle etc.)
* Select icon size (standard, large, x2, x3, x4)
* Automatically use color from widget title or set it manually with color-picker
* .pot file for translations included
You can also use these icons anywhere in your theme.
#### For Elusive icons
Syntax: ``
#### For Font Awesome icons
Syntax: ``
#### Translations:
* Chinese – by xiaoyaole
* German – by Matthias Siebler
* Polish – by Bartosz Arendt
## Screenshots
* [[
* screenshot-1.png
* [[
* screenshot-2.png
## Installation
1. Install Widget Icon either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading
the files to your server
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Go to the Widgets menu and select icons for each of your widgets.
## FAQ
No questions yet.
## Reviews
### [Nice one](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-one-204/)
[jurasjo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jurasjo/) July 14, 2018
I like this plugin.
[ Read all 13 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-icon/reviews/)
## Contributors & Developers
“Widget Icon” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.
Contributors
* [ dFactory ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dfactory/)
[Translate “Widget Icon” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/widget-icon)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-icon/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/widget-icon/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/widget-icon/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/widget-icon/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 1.1.3
* New: German translation, thanks to Matthias Siebler
#### 1.1.2
* New: Chinese translation, thanks to xiaoyaole
#### 1.1.1
* Tweak: Font Awesome updated to 3.2.1
* Tweak: Added new icon size 5x
#### 1.1.0
* New: Font Awesome icon library
* New: Option to select icon library for each widget
#### 1.0.2
* Tweak: Better way of embedding icons, now it should really work with EVERY theme(
Thanks Bob)
* Tweak: 4 new icon positions (Thanks Bob)
#### 1.0.1
* Fix for themes: P2 theme, Responsive theme, Patchwork, Custom Community
#### 1.0.0
* Initial release
## Meta
* Version **1.1.3**
* Last updated **12 years ago**
* Active installations **700+**
* WordPress version ** 3.3 or higher **
* Tested up to **3.7.41**
* Language
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-icon/)
* Tags
* [icon](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/icon/)[widget](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
[widget-icon](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget-icon/)[widget-only](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget-only/)
[widgets](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)
* [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/widget-icon/advanced/)
## Ratings
4.9 out of 5 stars.
* [ 12 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-icon/reviews/?filter=5)
* [ 1 4-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-icon/reviews/?filter=4)
* [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-icon/reviews/?filter=3)
* [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-icon/reviews/?filter=2)
* [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-icon/reviews/?filter=1)
[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-icon/reviews/#new-post)
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## Contributors
* [ dFactory ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dfactory/)
## Support
Got something to say? Need help?
[View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-icon/)
## Donate
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