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Best Icon WordPress Plugins

6 plugins · 800K combined installs · 4.5/5 avg rating

Icon plugins for WordPress provide access to large libraries of scalable vector icons — including Font Awesome, Dashicons, Material Icons, and custom SVG sets — and make them easy to insert into posts, pages, menus, buttons, and widget areas without writing code. SVG-based icon fonts render crisply at any screen size and can be styled entirely with CSS, making them far more flexible than raster image sprites for UI elements like social media buttons, feature lists, and call-to-action blocks. Web designers building client sites, theme developers adding icon pickers to Gutenberg blocks, and marketers customising landing pages all use icon plugins to enhance visual communication without relying on a developer. The best plugins in this category load icons selectively rather than enqueuing the entire icon font, keeping page weight and render-blocking resources to a minimum.