wagtailfontawesome 1.1.1

StreamField

Add FontAwesome icons to StreamField the regular way, just set icon=”fa-something”. Reference the full list.

wagtailmodeladmin

wagtailmodeladmin is supported if you’re using Wagtail 1.4 or above. Similar to StreamField, just set icon=”fa-something” on your menu item.

Hallo plugins

You can use FontAwesome icons on custom Hallo buttons by setting the icon option to icon icon-fa-something.

button.hallobutton({
  label: "Blockquote",
  icon: 'icon icon-fa-quote-left',
});

Other parts of the admin

You can include icons anywhere in the admin with:

<i class="icon icon-fa-something"></i>

In Wagtail 1.3.x and below you can only use icons on the page editor screen.

On the front-end

You can also include the CSS on the front end, and follow FontAwesome’s documentation.

{% load wagtailfontawesome %}

{% fontawesome_css %}

This will generate equivalent markup to:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'wagtailfontawesome/css/fontawesome.css' %}">

Then include icons anywhere on the front-end with:

<i class="fa fa-something"></i>

Using wagtailfontawesome as an optional dependency

If you want to distribute a Wagtail plugin with FontAwesome icons, you can use this package as an optional dependency by checking if it’s installed in Django, and falling back otherwise.

from django.apps import apps
from wagtail.wagtailcore.blocks import StructBlock


class BlockquoteBlock(StructBlock):
    quote = TextBlock()
    author = TextBlock()

    class Meta:
        if apps.is_installed('wagtailfontawesome'):
            icon = 'fa-quote-left'

(in this case, the fallback is to do nothing)