Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field

84 Quality Score

Active Installs

22/30

With 90,000 active installs and a popularity sub score of 74, it is solidly mid tier within the ACF add on ecosystem, well behind the parent ACF plugin at 2 million installs but comparable to other niche ACF extensions.

Update Freshness

25/25

Maintenance scores a perfect 100, reflecting a recent update on 2026-06-26 and clean compatibility tags across WordPress 6.5 plus and PHP 5.6 plus, though PHP 5.6 is notably outdated for modern hosting.

User Rating

15/15

A 98 out of 100 user rating from 36 reviews indicates exceptionally positive feedback from the small pool of users who have rated it.

Support Health

8/15

Support health sits at 50, with only 7 threads and 6 resolved, which is acceptable resolution rate at 85.7% but the low thread volume leaves limited public evidence of ongoing developer responsiveness.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Compatibility scores a perfect 100, with tested up to WordPress 7.0 and a minimum requirement of WordPress 6.5, signalling forward looking but reasonable version support.

Scores higher than 95% of indexed plugins

About

Adds a new 'Font Awesome Icon' field to the popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin.

Active Installs 90k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.9/5

Last Updated 2026-08-25 8:53am GMT

Requires WordPress 6.5+

Tested Up To 7.1

Requires PHP 5.6+

Security History

4 known vulnerabilities, all patched

4 Medium

Most recent: August 6, 2026

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What It Does

This plugin adds a dedicated Font Awesome icon picker field to the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) interface, letting editors browse and select icons from within a custom field rather than typing class names manually. It integrates with ACF's standard field rendering and returns the selected icon's class or full markup for use in templates. The result is a more user friendly icon workflow for content teams building pages with ACF.

Who It's For

This is a fit for WordPress developers and agencies already using Advanced Custom Fields who want to give clients a visual way to pick Font Awesome icons for service lists, feature blocks, team pages, or menu items. It works particularly well for creative agencies, restaurant menus, real estate listings, and SaaS feature showcases where icons enhance scannability. Non technical editors benefit from the picker UI instead of memorizing CSS class names.

Who Should Skip It

Anyone not already using Advanced Custom Fields should skip this plugin, as it has zero value without ACF installed and active. Sites that only need icons in navigation menus are better served by a dedicated menu icons plugin. If you have only a handful of static icons hard coded in your theme, installing this is overkill.

The Bottom Line

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field is a focused, well maintained utility that does exactly one thing and does it well, earning an overall quality score of 84.39. It is a sensible pick for ACF based sites that need a polished icon picker UX, though the limited public support history and dependency on ACF keep it from being essential. Verify your PHP version first, as the 5.6 minimum is dated and may cause friction on newer hosts.

Related Plugins

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) 94/100

Choose the parent ACF plugin first since this Font Awesome field is useless without it, and ACF Pro also ships its own icon-friendly field types.

Menu Icons by Themeisle 85/100

Pick Menu Icons if your icon needs are limited to navigation menus rather than arbitrary ACF field locations across page templates.

Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 84/100

ACF Extended is the better choice if you want a broader toolkit of extra ACF fields and modules beyond just a Font Awesome picker.

Font Awesome 83/100

The official Font Awesome plugin is preferable if you need the icon library loaded site wide with shortcodes and CDN handling rather than just an ACF field.

Table Field Add-on for ACF and SCF 83/100

Pick the Table Field add-on instead when your ACF field needs are about tabular data rather than icon selection.