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Font Awesome matters only if the evidence supports a paid workflow around preventing client-site regressions before updates or edits go live, not a list of isolated fixes. The current commercial thesis is: Page-builder and editor changes can break layouts, CTAs, or client pages after updates. The entry wedge is to run pre-update checks, detect visible regressions, and produce client-safe rollback guidance.

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Opportunity Summary

Full report

Build an agency visual QA and update safety plugin for site builders and agencies: Page-builder and editor changes can break layouts, CTAs, or client pages after updates. The first wedge is to run pre-update checks, detect visible regressions, and produce client-safe rollback guidance.

The unmet need is not the individual complaint. It is the recurring business workflow: Page-builder and editor changes can break layouts, CTAs, or client pages after updates. Current stage: commercial watchlist.

Competitors

17 shown
WP Font Awesome 10.0K installs · 4.9
weak incumbent
-100.0%momentum 66.9weakness 8/12pain/praise

Pain still appears around support, missing feature despite praise for reliable, quality.

source 1 source 2
Icon Fonts 300 installs · 5.0
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 48.5weakness 4/4pain/praise

Pain still appears around bugs, compatibility despite praise for quality, reliable.

source 1 source 2
NM Font Awesome 100 installs · 5.0
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 32.5weakness 0/3pain/praise

Pain still appears around bugs, support despite praise for value, easy.

source 1 source 2
JVM Rich Text Icons 3.0K installs · 5.0
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 25.8weakness 2/11pain/praise

Pain still appears around support, missing feature despite praise for quality, easy.

source 1 source 2
Block for Font Awesome 1.0K installs · 4.2
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 21.8weakness 1/5pain/praise

Pain still appears around bugs, support despite praise for easy, quality.

source 1 source 2
Post Type Icons 100 installs · 4.6
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 33.2weakness 0/7pain/praise

Weakness evidence: stale update history.

source 1
Easy Fontawesome 100 installs · 5.0
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 33.0weakness 0/1pain/praise

Weakness evidence: stale update history.

source 1
Spectre Icons 400 installs · 5.0
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 15.0weakness 0/1pain/praise

Pain still appears around support despite praise for quality.

source 1 source 2
CFS Font Awesome 100 installs · 5.0
watchlist
-100.0%momentum 33.0weakness 0/2pain/praise

Weakness evidence: stale update history.

source 1
Update Icon for Twitter X 100 installs · 0.0
watchlist
-100.0%momentum 30.9weakness 0/0pain/praise

Weakness evidence: stale update history.

Evidence

Open evidence explorer
complaint Problem with Avada

Problem with Avada: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field · Problem with Avada Hello, we currently have a problem where the font awesome field throws a critical error when the field is getting displayed in the backend (where normally the icon selection appears). complaint Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Icon Fonts · Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error. complaint PHP error if used inside repeater field

PHP error if used inside repeater field: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field · PHP error if used inside repeater field I created a new field inside a repeater field. complaint Doesn’t work

Doesn’t work: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Block for Font Awesome · Doesn’t work This is the third time I’m leaving this review. complaint Functionality broken when main acf menu item hidden

Functionality broken when main acf menu item hidden: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field · Functionality broken when main acf menu item hidden When the main acf plugin menu item is hidden (using acf/settings/show_admin hook), this plugin doesn’t load the relevant code, meaning settings can’t be saved properly, and styles aren’t loaded This seems to be because the enqueue_xyz functions are expecting a certain page hook name structure, which doesn’t mixed Iconset is empty

Iconset is empty: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

JVM Rich Text Icons · Iconset is empty no display of any icon, clean install, maybe awesome fonts disabled? mixed Problem with CPU hosting

Problem with CPU hosting: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

JVM Rich Text Icons · It will probably be a conflict, but in the meantime I want to point it out. mixed out of memory errors

out of memory errors: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

JVM Rich Text Icons · out of memory errors Hi, my site which is very small was running into out-of-memory errors when this plugin was installed. mixed __DIR__ throws errors

__DIR__ throws errors: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Post Type Icons · __DIR__ throws errors Activated the plugin and navigated to Tools > Post Type Icons and found the following errors that prevented the page from loading: Notice: Use of undefined constant __DIR__ – assumed ‘__DIR__’ in [my website]/wp-content/plugins/post-type-icons/post-type-icons.php on line 66 Warning: require_once(__DIR__/font-awesome/class-pti-font-aweso complaint Fatal error

Fatal error: users show bugs, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

WP Font Awesome · Fatal error When installing font awesome on godaddy wordpress site, I get the following error: he Font Awesome plugin caught a fatal error. complaint Any update/new support incoming ?

Any update/new support incoming ?: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Post Title Icons · Any update/new support incoming ? complaint remove hacks from plugin

remove hacks from plugin: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

WP Fontallic Easypromoweb · remove hacks from plugin please remove hacks: add_filter('the_generator','disable_version'); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 ); // Display the links to the extra feeds such as category feeds remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links', 2 ); // Display the links to the general feeds: Post and Comment Feed remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rsd_link' ); // mixed Fatal error with some versions of PHP

Fatal error with some versions of PHP: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

JVM Rich Text Icons · Fatal error with some versions of PHP Hi, thanks for creating this plugin. mixed Security Vulnerability Reported by cPanel WP Toolkit

Security Vulnerability Reported by cPanel WP Toolkit: users show security, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Block for Font Awesome · Security Vulnerability Reported by cPanel WP Toolkit Received a notification from WP Toolkit this morning: WordPress Block for Font Awesome plugin <= 1.3.3 – Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability Details on Patchstack . mixed Icons not loading fatal error

Icons not loading fatal error: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field · Icons not loading fatal error The Plugin doesn’t show the icon selection in the admin anymore. complaint Fatal Error

Fatal Error: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Icon Fonts · Fatal Error Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION https://wordpress.org/plugins/icon-fonts/ Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION https://wordpress.org/plugins/icon-fonts/ neutral Other FA icons broken

Other FA icons broken: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

NM Font Awesome · Other FA icons broken Hey Mykhailo, I really like the plugin — as it brings the new brand icons to the site. complaint Menu Icons by ThemeIsle created a error

The user initially thought Menu Icons caused a site-down error, but later traced it to WordPress update file ownership and fixed it by reinstalling.

Menu Icons by Themeisle – Add Icons to Navigation Menus · I’m sorry to hear your site is down. complaint Font awesome v6x – wp-graphql returns object when class is specified in settings

Font awesome v6x – wp-graphql returns object when class is specified in settings: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field · Font awesome v6x – wp-graphql returns object when class is specified in settings When using the plugin with v6x icons wp-graphql incorrectly returns an object when the field settings are set to return a class. complaint Conflict with official FontAwesome WordPress plugin

Conflict with official FontAwesome WordPress plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field · Conflict with official FontAwesome WordPress plugin The ACF: Font Awesome Field Plugin works perfectly fine on its own. complaint This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed.

This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed.: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field · This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed. complaint Some custom icons not displaying correctly

Some custom icons not displaying correctly: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field · Some custom icons not displaying correctly I’m having an issue but just with SOME of our custom icons which seems extra hard to troubleshoot. complaint Doesn't work

Doesn't work: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Article Feedback · Doesn't work I installed this plugin and it looks great. complaint Using ASYNC or DEFER for the font awesome css sheet?

Using ASYNC or DEFER for the font awesome css sheet?: users show performance, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

WP Font Awesome · Hey, i checked my website with google pagespeed insights and it tells me, that the font awesome css sheet takes a lot of time. complaint READ THIS FIRST! Welcome to the support forum!

READ THIS FIRST! Welcome to the support forum!: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Menu Icons by Themeisle – Add Icons to Navigation Menus · Welcome to the support forum! complaint Tracking of Thumbs Up/Down

Tracking of Thumbs Up/Down: users show compatibility, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Article Feedback · Tracking of Thumbs Up/Down I was wondering if there was a way to track how many people said your article was helpful or not helpful? complaint A couple of suggestions

A couple of suggestions: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Article Feedback · Here are a couple of suggestions that would make it even more useful: – support for custom post types – allowing the plugin user to change the exact text that appears before or after the content, for example “Did this page help you?” or “Was this review useful?” – show the total number of people who found it useful for example “8 of 10 users found it useful” mixed CPT template – pre fill acf field “Font Awesome Field”

CPT template – pre fill acf field “Font Awesome Field”: users show bugs, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field · How are the fields saved? mixed PHP Notice: https://themeisle.com/blog/feed is invalid XML …

PHP Notice: https://themeisle.com/blog/feed is invalid XML …: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Menu Icons by Themeisle – Add Icons to Navigation Menus · PHP Notice: https://themeisle.com/blog/feed is invalid XML … Getting these in a clients debug.log file: [23-Oct-2023 06:00:16 UTC] PHP Notice: https://themeisle.com/blog/feed is invalid XML, likely due to invalid characters. mixed Add IMDb Logo

Add IMDb Logo: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Menu Icons by Themeisle – Add Icons to Navigation Menus · Add IMDb Logo Dear support! mixed PHP Deprecated: Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated

PHP Deprecated: Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Menu Icons by Themeisle – Add Icons to Navigation Menus · PHP Deprecated: Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated Getting these in a clients debug.log file: [21-Oct-2023 07:54:25 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated in .../wp-content/plugins/menu-icons/vendor/codeinwp/themeisle-sdk/src/Modules/Dashboard_widget.php on line 326 Reason: $items_normalized is false when mixed Fields with location type ‘menu’ or ‘menu-item’ do not save and return json

Fields with location type ‘menu’ or ‘menu-item’ do not save and return json: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field · Fields with location type ‘menu’ or ‘menu-item’ do not save and return json I am encountering several issues with the ACF Font Awesome field plugin on my WordPress site: Reverting to Duotone : When selecting icon types, the field settings unexpectedly revert to using the duotone option. mixed custom svgs not uploaded correctly

custom svgs not uploaded correctly: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

JVM Rich Text Icons · I tried different ones Hi, I quickly tried on a fresh installation. mixed Warning: Trying to access array offset on null

Warning: Trying to access array offset on null: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field · Warning: Trying to access array offset on null Hi, I am using the plugin version 2.4.2 and it throws a warning: “Warning: Trying to access array offset on null in …\fields\acf-font-awesome-v5.php on line 280” After some inspection it looks like it is the function maybe_enqueue_font_awesome(field) that does not validate that $field[‘type’] and $field[‘enqueue mixed Keeps saying it needs to update after clicking update

Keeps saying it needs to update after clicking update: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Menu Icons by Themeisle – Add Icons to Navigation Menus · If the plugin keeps prompting for an update even after you’ve clicked “Update,” it might be due to a caching issue or a failed update process. mixed v1.4.2 wipes out theme fontawesome code

v1.4.2 wipes out theme fontawesome code: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Block for Font Awesome · v1.4.2 wipes out theme fontawesome code With the release of 1.4.2, existing Font Awesome icons that are displayed in the footer, now get overwritten with in-line SVGs, and break the theme CSS. mixed How to change the question's language?

How to change the question's language?: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Article Feedback · Would like to use it with german language…the question needs to be translated… https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-article-feedback/ Would like to use it with german language…the question needs to be translated… https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-article-feedback/ Hi mpek, Now the latest version 1.2 of the article feedback plugin is language supportive and you ca mixed Icons Menu wrong vertical alignment

Icons Menu wrong vertical alignment: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Menu Icons by Themeisle – Add Icons to Navigation Menus · Icons Menu wrong vertical alignment Hi guys, I’m in a trouble about the vertical alignment on a icon inside the menu, using the Icons Menu ThemeIsle plugin. mixed Buggy behavior in the site editor

Buggy behavior in the site editor: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

JVM Rich Text Icons · Buggy behavior in the site editor Hi, thanks for providing such a great plugin. complaint Easier ways to remove an icon once added

Easier ways to remove an icon once added: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

JVM Rich Text Icons · Obviously it would be great not to need that at all, but as I realise the block editor is not amazingly robust, this may be a feature worth implementing.