Paul Taylor

I found the answer!

Thanks for the reply. However, you have misunderstood the problem. I did not have a problem using fontawesome v5. My problem was using the code in functions.php in Quark, which delivers the Social Media Menu. Whereas all entries in this menu previously fed class ‘fa’, they now have to feed either ‘fab’ or ‘fas’, depending on whether or not the icon is a brand or not.

This was a typical line for a social media icon.

array( 'url' => of_get_option( 'social_twitter', '' ), 'icon' => 'fa-twitter', 'title' => esc_html__( 'Follow me on Twitter', 'qohelet' ) ),

And all the social media icons were then delivered with:

$output .= sprintf( '<li><a href="%1$s" title="%2$s"%3$s><span class="fa-stack fa-lg"><i class="fas fa-square fa-stack-2x"></i><i class="fa %4$s fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i></span></a></li>',
					esc_url( $value ),
					$key['title'],
					( !of_get_option( 'social_newtab', '0' ) ? '' : ' target="_blank"' ),
					$key['icon']
				);

I have found my own solution. I have now included the class with the of_get_option. Here are two examples:

array( 'url' => of_get_option( 'social_twitter', '' ), 'icon' => 'fab fa-twitter', 'title' => esc_html__( 'Follow me on Twitter', 'qohelet' ) ),
array( 'url' => of_get_option( 'social_rss', '' ), 'icon' => 'fas fa-rss', 'title' => esc_html__( 'Subscribe to my RSS Feed', 'qohelet' ) ),

Then I removed the ‘fa’ class from the sprintf functions, thus:

$output .= sprintf( '<li><a href="%1$s"><span class="fa-stack fa-lg"><i class="fas fa-square fa-stack-2x"></i><i class="fa %4$s fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i></span></a></li>',
					esc_url( $value ),
					$key['title'],
					( !of_get_option( 'social_newtab', '0' ) ? '' : ' target="_blank"' ),
					$key['icon']
				);

I hope you can see the differences. This needs to be amended in your functions.php file within Quark. It may be a problem that I created myself, because I wanted an RSS icon, and a Podcast icon, but you can no longer rely on all the fontawesome icons being the same class – some are fas and some are fab.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by Paul Taylor.

I solved it myself. It was an odd problem. I decativated every plugin. Then activated your plugin first. Then I reactivated every other plugin, and everything worked.

Thanks for resolving this. The latest upgrade seems to correct the issue, in any case.

Let’s try doing the code properly this time!

<p><strong>Latest News: </strong><a href="
<?php echo {url here}; ?>
">
<?php echo {post heading here}; ?>
</a>
</p>

There is no doubt, looking at other messages here, that I seem to be the only person having this problem. I will have to look at whether or not I have an error in my set-up of WP3.5.

Meanwhile, at least it has forced me to return to plugin writing, which is fun and good exercise for the brain.

No error messages. It simply refuses to update. The update section of the admin page just goes blank, as one tries to update.

I tried updating by uploading the zip file manually. However, when I attempted to activate the plugin, the same thing happened.

I have not seen effect this with any other plugin.

The first step has worked. I declared the top level menu, by using:

if (!isset($glob_tlm)) {

where $glob_tlm will contain the menu-slug of the top level menu.

Now I need to put the same functions in the class for one of my other plugins, and then attempt to install it. I’ll post another comment if it works!

Thanks for the help.