Title: Stop from adding "fa" to all CSS classes
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Stop from adding "fa" to all CSS classes

 *  Resolved [Steven Ma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenlma/)
 * (@stevenlma)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-from-adding-fa-to-all-css-classes/)
 * When using the shortcode, the plugin appends “fa” to the beginning of the class
   if it doesn’t exist. For example, [icon name=”check” class=”lg”] becomes <i class
   =”fa-check fa-lg”> which is great. But it’s a problem for external classes. If
   I add [icon name=”check” class=”text-success”] from Bootstrap, it becomes <i 
   class=”fa-check fa-text-success”> which isn’t helpful, because I need “text-success”
   as the class, not “fa-text-success”. Any ideas on how to fix this?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-font-awesome/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-font-awesome/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mickey Kay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcguive7/)
 * (@mcguive7)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-from-adding-fa-to-all-css-classes/#post-5845290)
 * That’s what the `unprefixed_class` attribute is for, as noted in the main description/
   documentation page. Whatever classes you add here won’t be prefixed.
 * I can have the shortcode generator add this attribute on the next version I think,
   so it’s more clear.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [Steven Ma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenlma/)
 * (@stevenlma)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-from-adding-fa-to-all-css-classes/#post-5845291)
 * Oh sorry I missed that. Thanks for clarifying

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 * Last reply from: [Steven Ma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenlma/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-from-adding-fa-to-all-css-classes/#post-5845291)
 * Status: resolved