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Name	Better Font Awesome
Version	1.0.9
Author	MIGHTYminnow & Mickey Kay
Rating	98
Last updated	2015-02-21 01:11:00
Downloads	21185
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Better Font Awesome plugin has no negative impact on PageSpeed score.

Home page PageSpeed score has been degraded by 0%, while Post page PageSpeed score has been degraded by 0%

Better Font Awesome plugin added 29 kB of resources to the Home page and 24 kB of resources to the sample Post page.

Better Font Awesome plugin added 1 new host(s) to the Home page and 1 new host(s) to the sample Post page.

Great! Better Font Awesome plugin ads no tables to your Wordpress blog database.

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Description

Better Font Awesome allows you to automatically integrate the latest available version of Font Awesome into your WordPress project, along with accompanying CSS, shortcodes, and TinyMCE icon shortcode generator.

Features

Always up-to-date - automatically fetches the most recent available version of Font Awesome, meaning you no longer need to manually update the version included in your theme/plugin.
Backwards compatible - shortcode output is automatically updated depending on which version of Font Awesome you choose, meaning that you can switch versions without having to modify your shortcodes.
Compatible with other plugins - designed to work with shortcodes generated with plugins like Font Awesome Icons, Font Awesome More Icons, and Font Awesome Shortcodes, so you can switch to Better Font Awesome and your existing shortcodes will still work.
CDN speeds - Font Awesome CSS is pulled from the super-fast and reliable jsDelivr CDN.
Shortcode generator - includes an easy-to-use TinyMCE dropdown shortcode generator.

Settings

All settings can be adjusted via Settings → Better Font Awesome.

Usage

Better Font Awesome can be used in 3 different ways: shortcode, HTML, and TinyMCE

1. Shortcode

[icon name="flag" class="2x spin border" unprefixed_class="my-custom-class"]

Note that prefixes (fa- and icon-) are not required, but if you do include them things will still work just fine! Better Font Awesome is smart enough to know what version of Font Awesome you're using and correct of the appropriate prefix.

That means that all of the following shortcodes will work, regardless of what version of Font Awesome you choose:

[icon name="flag" class="2x spin border"]

[icon name="icon-flag" class="icon-2x icon-spin icon-border"]

[icon name="fa-flag" class="fa-2x fa-spin fa-border"]

[icon name="icon-flag" class="fa-2x spin icon-border"]

You can read more about shortcode usage on Github

2. TinyMCE

Better Font Awesome also provides you with an easy-to-use drop down menu when editing in TinyMCE's visual mode. Check out our Screenshots to see what it looks like.

3. HTML

Note that prefixes are required for HTML usage, and are version-specific. For this reason, shortcode usage is encouraged over HTML. If you do want to use HTML, however, you can read more on the Font Awesome site.

Advanced / Integration

Better Font Awesome is built around the Better Font Awesome Library. This library allows you to integrate Better Font Awesome into any custom project you want to create (perhaps a theme or plugin with a constantly up-to-date icon list), and includes all the filters you might need.