Ed's Font Awesome

The ultimate Font Awesome plugin for WordPress. Use all of the free font awesome icons in one place. Features: Basic icon shortcode with style, name, size, and color Mask icons — combine any two icons Mask circle icons — place any icon inside a circle Rotate and flip icons NEW: Animated icons — spin, pulse, beat, fade, bounce, flip, shake NEW: Layered/stacked icons — stack icons, text, and counters NEW: Icon links — wrap any icon in a clickable link NEW: Color attribute — set icon color on any shortcode Font Awesome 6.7.2 included 1.0.2 Added option for size to require only size attribute without fa- prefix. 1.0.3 Removed unecessary font-awesome files for thinner plugin size. 1.0.4 Added Spin feature and mask feature. 1.0.5 Updated Instructions 2.0 Updated Font Awesome to vs. 6.7.2. This version Adds X social media icon 2.1 Security fix: Sanitized and escaped all shortcode attribute outputs to prevent Stored XSS (CVE-2026-2496) Applied esc_attr() to all shortcode HTML attribute outputs Applied esc_html() to admin notice helper function Tested up to WordPress 6.8 3.0.1 Security: Confirmed all shortcode attributes properly escaped with esc_attr(), esc_html(), esc_url() Version bump to clearly differentiate from vulnerable v2.0 (CVE-2026-2496) 3.0 NEW: Animated icons shortcode [eds_fa_spin] — spin, pulse, beat, fade, bounce, flip, shake NEW: Layered/stacked icons [eds_fa_layers] with [eds_fa_layer_icon], [eds_fa_layer_text], [eds_fa_layer_counter] NEW: Icon link shortcode [eds_fa_link] — wrap any icon in a clickable link NEW: Color attribute added to all icon shortcodes Improved: Admin scripts only load on plugin pages (no longer on every admin page) Improved: Cleaner code structure with constants and security best practices Updated dashboard with full shortcode reference and live previews