Better Font AwesomebyMickey Kay

The Better Font Awesome plugin for WordPress. Shortcodes, HTML, TinyMCE, various Font Awesome versions, backwards compatibility, CDN speeds, and more.

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  • Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
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  • Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
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  • No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found PHP error/s while activating this plugin on our server
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  • No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • Latest PHP 7.4.8 compatible WP Hive automated test found some warnings/errors while testing it with the latest version of PHP. They may/may not cause any issues. You are advised to test yourself
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  • Latest WordPress 5.5.1 compatible WP Hive automated test found that the plugin may not be fully compatible due to PHP warnings, latest version of PHP\'s compatibility. However, this is an automated test and plugin maybe fully compatible. You are advised to test yourself
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  • Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
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  • No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
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  • Frequently updated The plugin was not updated at least once in the last 90 days
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  • All the scripts run on a VPS with 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM.
  • The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1. The server is a 8 core CPU with 8GB of RAM.
  • The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 7.4.8 & WordPress 5.5.1.
  • The database server is MySQL 8.0.15 and the default PHP memory limit is 256MB.
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1M

Total Downloads

Installation Iocn

100K

Active Installation

Calendar Iocn

11 years

On WordPress

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0.0%

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1

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84

Ratings on WordPress

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About Better Font Awesome

Description

Do you find this plugin helpful? Please consider leaving a 5-star review. Better Font Awesome allows you to automatically integrate the latest available version of Font Awesome into your WordPress project, along with accompanying CSS, shortcodes, and TinyMCE icon shortcode generator. Features Always up-to-date – automatically fetches the most recent available version of Font Awesome, meaning you no longer need....

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Performance

Memory Usage

  • Download Icon Average memory usage is33.24 KB
  • Download Iocn This is less than99%plugins

Page Speed

  • Download Icon Average page loading time is increased by 0.03 s
  • Download Iocn This is faster than99%plugins

Speed Test Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data

  • Before plugin activation
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Pages

Benchmark

Change

Average Change
+ 0.03s
/(front page)
- 0.11s
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
- 0.02s
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 0.03s
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 0.04s
/wp-admin/index.php
- 0.07s
/wp-admin/media-new.php
- 0s
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
- 0.06s
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
+ 0.01s
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 0.34s
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 0.22s
/wp-admin/upload.php
- 0.07s
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Memory Usage Memory Usage Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data

  • Before plugin activation
  • After plugin activation

Pages

Benchmark

Change

Average Change
+ 33.24KB
/ (front page)
+ 30.39KB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 40.59KB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 40.93KB
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 32.78KB
/wp-admin/index.php
+ 32.82KB
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 32.93KB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 32.57KB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
+ 28.51KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 31.02KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 30.47KB
/wp-admin/upload.php
+ 32.63KB
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Database Tables

The plugin has added 0 additional options to your WordPress.

WP-Options

The plugin has added 1 additional options to your WordPress website.

Errors

PHP Compatibility Issue

  • The plugin has not been properly activated on PHP 7.4.8. It may not work.

WordPress Compatibility Issue

  • The plugin may not be fully compatible with WordPress 5.5.1.

Frequently Updated

  • The plugin has not been updated in the last 90 days.

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Error Log

We found the following errors while activating the plugin. Read more how WP Hive generates this data.

  • [20-Sep-2020 03:04:38 UTC] PHP Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/better-font-awesome/better-font-awesome.php on line 294
  • [20-Sep-2020 03:04:40 UTC] PHP Deprecated: screen_icon is deprecated since version 3.8.0 with no alternative available. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 4783
  • [20-Sep-2020 03:04:40 UTC] PHP Deprecated: get_screen_icon is deprecated since version 3.8.0 with no alternative available. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 4783

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