Font Awesome icons not working with specific WordPress theme

  • Unknown's avatar
    alexjread · Member ·

    I’m creating a WordPress site with a theme called Blog Design Lite. When I first installed the theme, I’m sure the Font Awesome icons worked.

    But at some point during development, and I’m not sure when, every icon turned into a box and I haven’t been able to fix it. This seems to be a theme-specific problem because when I install another theme the icons work fine. After reinstalling Blog Design Lite, the problem returns.

    I think it’s a fairly old theme and includes an old version of Font Awesome: ‘font-awesome.min.css?ver=1.0.4’ but, as I say, I’m sure it worked when I first installed.

    I have tried reinstalling the theme (as mentioned), disabling all plugins, installing new Font Awesome plugins, adding this code to the .htaccess file:

    <FilesMatch ".(ttf|otf|eot|woff)$">
  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
  </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

    … and adding this CDN link to the theme’s header.php file:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" />

    Here is a link to the website: http://ianzone.com/714161/ – the site is password-protected and the password is: [redacted by staff] with no quote marks.

    Could anyone help me suss out how to display the icons correctly?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    You are creating a theme for the open source WordPress software found on WordPress.org. WordPress.com is a hosting provider for that software, and this forum is for end-users of our service. We cannot provide developer help here.

    For help with development work on WordPress themes and plugins, please try a developer forum like https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/ instead, or you might be able to get some help in the WordPress forums at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/ as well.

    For help with a specific plugin like Font Awesome, please contact support for that plugin directly.

    the site is password-protected and the password is…

    Never share a password on a public forum like this, and don’t even privately share it with support staff. I have redacted the password posted here from your post, but I suggest you change it as soon as possible as well.

  • Unknown's avatar
    alexjread · Member ·

    Hi, I will repost there.

    The password is nothing to do with any account, it is simply the password used to bypass a plugin that makes the website private. Am I not in the right to share that?

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Although I’d always err on the side of caution when providing any password, you can definitely share the password, as long as you don’t mind someone possibly getting access to the private site. I think it would be better to make the site temporarily public if you want someone who is helping you to take a look at it.

    Thanks,

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