What Is WordPress Dashicons?<\/h2>\n
WordPress Dashicons is a set of font icons included in WordPress core since version 3.8. Over 300 font icons in the SVG format are ready to use without loading a third-party icon library. What’s more, these font icons are scalable and lightweight ‒ perfect for spicing up your website’s design without hurting its page speed.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/p>
How to Use and Display Dashicons in WordPress<\/h2>
The Dashicons library is available in your WordPress admin dashboard by default. However, you must enable Dashicons manually if you want to add icons to your theme.<\/p>
In the following sections, we’ll show you how to use the Dashicons library in WordPress.<\/p>
Enabling Dashicons on WordPress Site<\/h3>
The first step of enabling Dashicons in WordPress is to edit your theme’s functions.php<\/strong> file.<\/p> \n\n\n Make sure to add the code to your child theme<\/a> to prevent future theme updates from reverting the changes.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/p> After enabling Dashicons for your site’s front end, you can add icons to posts, pages, or parts of your theme.<\/p> Follow the steps below to add Dashicons to the menu items.<\/p> Besides CSS code<\/a>, Dashicons also provide its font icons’ HTML code and Glyph character to streamline your website-building process. Use the filter function to find a specific font icon and copy the appropriate code anywhere within your WordPress website using a text editor.<\/p> For instance, copy the CSS code to add an icon font to the style.css<\/strong> file. You can use a custom CSS editor to modify your CSS file if you don’t like what the Theme File Editor offers.<\/p> Here are some different ways to use Dashicons in WordPress:<\/p> The Dashicons project stopped accepting icon requests in 2020<\/a>. Therefore, the only way to create a custom icon is by modifying it using CSS code.<\/p> Here’s an example of a code snippet to resize and change the color of a Dashicons. Place it in your style.css<\/strong> file and make sure the CSS selector targets your chosen element for this method to work.<\/p> WordPress custom post types<\/a> appear inside the admin menu. Like other menu items, a custom post type has an icon next to it. The only problem is that WordPress assigns the same icon as Posts<\/strong> by default.<\/p> Adding Dashicons to your custom post types can solve this issue and make your admin dashboard more pleasing. If you develop custom plugins, you can assign different icons to help retain users’ attention and improve their readability.<\/p> You can either manually embed a menu icon into your custom post type menu or do so by using a plugin. For this tutorial, we will show you how to do it using the Custom Post Type UI<\/a> plugin:<\/p>\n
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add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'load_dashicons_front_end' ); \nfunction load_dashicons_front_end() { \nwp_enqueue_style( 'dashicons' ); \n}<\/pre>\n
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Finding Dashicon HTML and CSS Codes<\/h3>
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