If I change the FontAwesome Version to 5.x, the icon picker shows only the brand icons, not regular/solid. Any idea why, or how I could fix that?
I need to use v5, because some icons look worse in the v6+ (like fa-eye which is more like a circle than an eye shape now). But with the 6.x or 7.x icon picker some icons don’t work, because their name changed or they’re new.
This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Tim Greller.
Are you using a kit, and if so, is that kit also v5? When using v5 of Font Awesome, it should not show the new icon chooser as that’s only available for Font Awesome v7.
No, I’m not using a kit. (I don’t think that’s even an option when using 5.x?) It shows the correct icon chooser for each version, just that the 5.x icon chooser is only containing brand icons and does not suggest or let me choose regular/solid icons. The 6.x and 7.x chooser works fine.
just to be clear: I’m talking only about the icon chooser as ACF field as I’m using this plugin only for this, everything else (mapping the class names I get to the corresponding SVGs) is handled by my own code.
I just tried it myself, and the search for v5 is quite harsh. For example if you search “test” you find nothing, but if you search “vial” you actually get results. Same goes for when I search “eye”, I do get results. This will be improved in the next version.
Are you sure you are searching “eye” in the input? As that seems to work fine here.
@threadi I already edited my comment with a screenshot uploaded to my server. But why does the editor have the functionality for image uploads, if they don’t work? 😅
That’s weird.. Just to make sure, have you updated to v6.1.4 of the plugin already? I did make some changes so at least the search works better and also searches for the search aliases instead of only the name.
If that hasn’t fixed your problems, we will continue trying to debug it as of course this isn’t the intended behavior.
If you continue to have issues, I would suggest going into the ACF field group that contains your FA field, and changing/updating the enabled FA icon sets and re-saving the field group to see if that resolves things.
