Updating font awesome

Activello
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Hi Movin,

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems that the current activello use font-awesome 4.4. There will be more icons released in the future for sure, so I would like to know if it is possible to update font awesome to newer version.

Currently I cannot use any icons that are only available in version 4.5 onwards

Thanks!

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Hi @fadill,

I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.

I have tested it on my test site and it’s using font-awesome 4.5 using latest version 1.0.2 of Activello theme.

What theme version are you using?

Please make sure to use latest version of it.

Best Regards,
Movin

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Hi Movin,

I’m using Activello 1.0.2 with some customization in my child theme. I dont think any of my customization makes the fontawesome icon not working though, as every icons that is available in version 4.4 and below works fine.

Also, in case if I want to use an icon that is only available in fontawesome 4.6, can I update it manually?

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To use latest fontawesome library you have to just add the latest font awesome font-awesome.min.css file in the css directory of your child theme and then add the following code in the functions.php file of your child theme.

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'func_enqueue_fontawesome_styles', 99);

function func_enqueue_fontawesome_styles() {
    wp_dequeue_style( 'shapely-icons');
    wp_enqueue_style( 'shapely-icons2', get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/css/font-awesome.min.css' );
}
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Thanks Movin!

That works perfectly.
I did further debugging and the culprit was one one of my plugin overrides the theme setting for fontawesome.
So I had to dequeue the fontawesome script of the plugin and and enqueue again the theme setting.

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You are most welcome here :slight_smile: