FontAwesome Multisite issue

[Ingrid]

I have a strange problem that I hope you can help me with. I used FontAwesome icons in the names of the menu-items on my multisite environment (I am the network administrator). Recently I added a single-site administrator to the environment. When he makes an update to the menu, the FontAwesome dissapears, it only leaves <i> </i> in the title of the menu-item…

Any idea what could be causing this?

GeneratePress 1.3.44

GP Premium 1.2.94

[Leo]

Hi Ingrid,

Can you take a look at this post and see if it helps?
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/font-awesome-not-working-on-multisite/

If not are you able to show the site?

Let me know.

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[Tom]

It might be that his capabilities won’t allow him to add HTML to the menu items.

Using a plugin like this might be necessary: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/menu-icons/

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[Ingrid]

Hi Tom,

Thanks so much for your quick replies. I saw the other item, but this seems te be a different problem. As you suggest in your second reply this is user-role-capabilities-specific. When I go back in under my own login as network-administrator I can simply put the FontAwesome-code back and everything works fine.

I try to keep the amount of plugins to a minimum and I would think this has to be possible under an administrator-single-site login. It also seems to be FontAwesome specific because the <b> </b> to show the items in bold are allowed under the other login. Is there anything you can think of to solve this?

I duplicated one of the sites to a test-environment for this purpose and casted a video of my screen to show the problem. You can find them under; https://7.segment.nl/test/

Thanks so much for your help and excellent support!

[Tom]

Took a while but I found this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#unfiltered_html

Check out the third bullet point, only the super admin has the unfiltered_html capability, which is why you’re running into the issue.

You can try giving your single site admins that capability with a plugin like this: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/

However, if you’re adding a plugin anyways, I would opt for the menu icon one.

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[Hans]

I use Icon menu and have also problems with the multisite icon. The developers of menu icons did not react on my question why multisite icon does not show up-

[Tom]

The Menu Icons plugin isn’t working for you on multi site?

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[Hans]

No, I want to show the multisite dashicon in front of a menu item. It does not show up. I used the dashicon “store” instead on huppenbroich.de. See menu item “Unser Dorf”.

[Tom]

Huh, weird. GP has a *-site class that’s conflicting with that one class.

Add this CSS:

.dashicons-admin-multisite:before {
    content: "\f541" !important;
}

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[Hans]

Hi Tom,

great, it works for me. I do not close as I do not know whether it works for Ingrid, too.

[Tom]

Thanks 🙂

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