Title: Avoid loading FontAwesome
Last modified: July 17, 2022

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# Avoid loading FontAwesome

 *  Resolved [fidoboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fidoboy/)
 * (@fidoboy)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-loading-fontawesome/)
 * My theme setup already includes FontAwesome so it has no sense that this plugin
   load it again (and it’s loading an old version 4.7)
 * Is there any way to deactivate FontAwesome loading in this plugin? Can I use 
   any hook in functions.php to dequeue it?
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by [fidoboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fidoboy/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Alexandru Tapuleasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talextech/)
 * (@talextech)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-loading-fontawesome/#post-15832385)
 * Hi,
 * It will only load FontAwesome if you use FA icons. You can disable icons for 
   links or use Dashicons or image icons instead 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [fidoboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fidoboy/)
 * (@fidoboy)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-loading-fontawesome/#post-15832436)
 * But I do not want to disable icons for links, all I want is to remove the CSS
   reference to the Font Awesome from this plugin, because it’s already being loaded
   from my theme.
 * There is other plugins, like WPDiscuz and so, that have an option to load or 
   not the FA font. May be you can consider this by adding a switch into your plugin
   settings.
 *  Plugin Author [Alexandru Tapuleasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talextech/)
 * (@talextech)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-loading-fontawesome/#post-15832472)
 * We have it on our ToDo list to update it to FA 5 but at the moment it uses FA
   4.7 and if another plugin would load FA5 the icons would not work 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [fidoboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fidoboy/)
 * (@fidoboy)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-loading-fontawesome/#post-15832575)
 * It’s not so important the font version upgrade as adding an option to toggle 
   the plugin loading of it.
 * The plugin works perfectly, with no problem at all, with version 5. Problem is
   redundant loading, that it’s being loaded twice or even worse, that both versions
   are being loaded at same time.
 * And the solution is as simple as I’ve pointed: to add a switch to avoid loading
   of the FA Font from this plugin. That way, if some users are not using at all
   that library, it can be loaded from the plugin, but if already have it, it can
   be avoided from an option in this plugin. And this same logic works with Dashicons.
 * It’s a very small change but very useful. Because all your code works the same
   with version 5 or even the 6 that it’s in beta
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by [fidoboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fidoboy/).
 *  Plugin Author [Alexandru Tapuleasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talextech/)
 * (@talextech)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-loading-fontawesome/#post-15832716)
 * Like I said, just don’t use a Font Awesome icon for Internal/External links in
   WP External Links and it won’t load Font Awesome, no need for an extra switch.
 *  [aph5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aph5/)
 * (@aph5)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-loading-fontawesome/#post-16271598)
 * Regarding this:
 * “It will only load FontAwesome if you use FA icons. You can disable icons for
   links or use Dashicons or image icons instead 🙂”
 * How do we disable icons? 😳 Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Alexandru Tapuleasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talextech/)
 * (@talextech)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-loading-fontawesome/#post-16271681)
 * [@aph5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aph5/) Just make sure “Choose icon
   type:” is set to `- no icon -` for each Link category (Internal/External/Exceptions)
   🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Alexandru Tapuleasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talextech/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-loading-fontawesome/#post-16271681)
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