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Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field
The tiny icon picker that keeps your ACF fields looking sharp.
HealthyGrowing
92/100
This niche utility provides a reliable icon picker and has recently resumed active maintenance.
Active installs
~128,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 90k+
Rating
4.9★
36 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+21%
Growing
310 → 376 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +21% in the last year
310/day a year ago→376/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAdvanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field is a well-regarded niche plugin that reliably adds a Font Awesome icon picker to ACF field groups, with a history of responsive developer support, though it went through a period of abandonment before being revived with updated FA support in late 2025.
What people like
- +Does its job reliably and without bloat — no dashboard clutter or upsells×8
- +Developer support is responsive, often replying within hours×4
- +Extensible via filters and actions, making it adaptable for custom setups like FA Pro or local hosting×2
- +Supports custom icon lists, allowing restriction to a subset of icons
- +Revived in December 2025 with support for the latest FA7 styles after a period of inactivity
Common complaints
- −Was largely abandoned for a year or two with no support for newer Font Awesome styles before being revived
- −No reset/clear option for a selected icon, which is a problem when using the field inside a repeater where a blank value is needed
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.92★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 36 total
Latest reviews · 36 analyzed
- 2025-12-01★★★★★Good for a long time, but now lacking in FA supportKipex
- 2023-08-24★★★★★Great jobcrdunst
- 2023-07-26★★★★★Excellent SupportSakib Hasan
- 2023-02-11★★★★★Great plugin quality and excellent supportdevelopress
- 2022-07-20★★★★★Fantastic plugin.DavidB722
- 2022-04-07★★★★★Fantastic plugin and great supportstanonline
- 2022-01-12★★★★★GreatJustin
- 2021-05-10★★★★★No reset Option for the Font awesomeanantaraj
- 2020-09-17★★★★★Flawlessdbrabyn
- 2020-09-11★★★★★Works great!alfaice
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
582
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
211
Prior 7-day baseline
1,217
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
12,046
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,189
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+175.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.27
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
94%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.92 → 4.92★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered