[Resolved] Updated theme and font awesome social icons no longer work. Confused about SVG

[Eric]

It had been a long time since I updated my theme and plug-ins. I updated everything today and now my social icons in the top bar widget are not appearing. I used font awesome for the links using the code below:

<font size=”4″>
<i class=”fa fa-instagram fa-fw”> </i>

<i class=”fa fa-youtube fa-fw”> </i>

<i class=”fa fa-facebook fa-fw”> </i>

<i class=”fa fa-twitter fa-fw”> </i>

<i class=”fa fa-pinterest fa-fw”> </i>
</font>

I’ve searched the forum and from my understanding, font awesome has been turned off because it slowed down performance, and SVG font icons are recommended instead. Unfortunately, I know nothing about SVG. I see that I can enable SVG font in Customize –> General, but can you tell me how I can add SVG social icons?

[Leo]

Hi there,

The SVG font from the theme doesn’t include any social icons – it’s just for theme icons such as dropdown arrow and menu toggle.

You can just use the FA plugin and your previous code would work again:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/font-awesome/

[Author]

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