76
Font Awesome
Love the icons but fear the fatal error when your Pro license expires.
GrowingPoor rating
76/100
The icons work well. The Gutenberg integration is clunky and license issues can crash your site.
Active installs
~450,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 400k+
Rating
3.6★
61 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+79%
Growing fast
1,248 → 2,237 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.62★
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
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 fast · +79% in the last year
1,248/day a year ago→2,237/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayFont Awesome is a well-known icon library plugin that works reliably for basic use cases, but its Gutenberg/block editor integration is widely criticized as outdated and cumbersome, and a serious bug can cause a fatal white-screen-of-death when a Pro license expires.
What people like
- +Works well for adding Font Awesome icons to a site without writing custom code×4
- +Easy integration with Pro kits via API token
- +Keeps the library up to date without manually managing asset files
- +Block editor support allows inserting icons without memorizing icon names
Common complaints
- −Block editor (Gutenberg/FSE) integration is poor: icons are inserted as shortcodes, not rendered visually in the editor, requiring constant tab-switching to preview×4
- −No dedicated block for icons; icons can only be added inside paragraph blocks or via shortcodes, making sizing and styling unnecessarily complicated×3
- −Icon picker is reported as buggy
- −Expired Pro license triggers a PHP fatal error and white screen of death instead of a graceful fallback or admin warning
- −Many free icons fail to display when using the pseudo-element method, regardless of CDN/Kit setting or version selected
- −Support reported as unhelpful and unresponsive, with one account being deleted without warning
- −Reported to break websites in some configurations×2
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.62★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.60★
- 2%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-01-162025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 61 total
Latest reviews · 61 analyzed
- 2026-03-08★★★★★It worksilyazzzz
- 2025-12-13★★★★★It does exactly what it says in the tindanielepais
- 2025-07-27★★★★★Dangerous, written by clownsdeancs
- 2025-06-05★★★★★Nice free pluginalexadsoxford1-shot
- 2025-05-19★★★★★Icon LinksPauron
- 2025-03-03★★★★★Excellent Free Productjoseeneveu
- 2025-02-27★★★★★Great job on the latest update!Avo Avetisyan
- 2024-10-23★★★★★DELETED entire account on mecoloradocory
- 2024-10-21★★★★★Not good enough!CF
- 2024-05-08★★★★★Breaks websiteZsolt
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.
2,338
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
2,804
Prior 7-day baseline
1,737
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
31,230
Mean release-day peak (30d)
2,222
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-16.6%
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.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.66
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
59%
5★ share in analyzed sample
2%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.64 → 3.62★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered