Noticons

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  stonenick · Member · May 5, 2013 at 4:32 am

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  Hi there,

  Just wondering what the deal is with noticons? Apparently, noticons is “our WordPress.com icon font” (http://wordpress.com/i/noticons/example.html)

  I think they noticons is a fantastic idea – being able to use an embedded font to show resolution-independent images. But I can’t seem to get them to work. In fact, I’m not even sure I am supposed to. Are they still under development? Or am I missing something?

  I notice that some themes (I have been using Twenty Twelve lately) have a noticons stylesheet.

  I am able to insert an icon (say, the Twitter bird) like this:

  <div class="noticon noticon-twitter"></div>

  and it shows up just fine while I am editing my blog. But as soon as I log out, the icon is gone. This means it’s a pretty useless feature for any visitor that is not (a) a WordPress user and (b) actually logged on to WordPress at the time.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  (BTW: There was another similar post on this topic, but it has been closed, and it didn’t answer the question). See: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/noticonscss-for-blog-visitors?replies=3 )

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  kraftbj · Staff · May 5, 2013 at 5:12 am

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  You’re right. I can confirm that they display when logged in and not when logged out.

  Not aware of the plans for these (if they’re still considered under development or what-have-you).

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 5, 2013 at 5:44 am

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  At this time, Noticons are only used for system-level items at WordPress.com (The Dashboard, Notifications, Reader, Stats, admin bar, etc), so they are only loaded for logged in users.

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  stonenick · Member · May 10, 2013 at 12:16 pm

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  Thanks for the clarification mapmanx.

  Well, it would be awesome if we could use notions or genericons in the body text of a blog.

  Would be great to identify, say, external links, PDF downloads, social media links, etc.

  Maybe one day..

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 10, 2013 at 2:46 pm

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  You’re welcome!

  Providing suport for Noticons or Genericons is something that we are discussing, so it may be here eventually.