Font Awesome 3.0

[sharonq]

I would like to use some of the new Fontawesome 3.0 icons but they are not available to JS – is there a way I can update the fonts on my own?

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[sharonq]

On a similar note – is it possible to get half size versions of the (very cool) JS icons?

[sharonq]

Oh… width parameter (duh)

[karlo]

In case someone is jumping up and down to release new Jump Start and wont often update FontAwesome check this:

https://twitter.com/fortaweso_me/status/317626463409020928
and also this
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/905

besides a bunch of new icons so it might be best to get 3.1.0?. I do not know schedule though.

I have used latest version with no issues so I think also safe to just put them in, auto-include! With 3.0 they increased default font-size 1px or something but that is all.

Even with 60 new icons file sizes are actually smaller than those in current Jump Start. Old had shit compression, now fixed/improved.

[karlo]

Was 40 more icons not 60.

28% Smaller Payload
3.0 is smaller, even with 16% more icons. Crazy small if you subset just the icons you need.

I cant confirm trick of Subset site. Screws up compression and files get bigger with fewer icons. I have also tried the much better IcoMoon site http://icomoon.io/ = about the same. Can get expected effect but I think require manual tweaking with special font building tools. Sites need to improve and they probably will. May be it works better today. Try it. Idea is good.

[Jason Bobich]

I would like to use some of the new Fontawesome 3.0 icons but they are not available to JS – is there a way I can update the fonts on my own?

You’d just download the font awesome package, and put it in a folder within your Child theme directory. Then, you’d register the stylesheet from that package for ID “fontawesome” before the framework does.

http://dev.themeblvd.com/tutorial/overriding-a-framework-javascript-file/ (URL title is misleading)

function my_fontawesome() {
    wp_register_style( 'fontawesome', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_fontawesome', 4 );

Note: Because this is hooked with priority 4, it will come before the framework.

On a similar note – is it possible to get half size versions of the (very cool) JS icons?

Do you mean the [icon] shortcode? You can use a width parameter on this.

http://shortcodes.themeblvd.com/shortcodes/shortcodes-icons/

[Jason Bobich]

@Karlo

I’m going to try and stay up with FontAwesome as best I can. I’m putting FontAwesome v3.0.2 into Jump Start v1.0.3 now. I won’t be forcing Jump Start updates for FontAwesome, but I’d like to try and put the latest version in there as often as possible. — Hard to stay on top of all of these various frontend plugins.

[karlo]

Yes I had the idea it got lost while dealing with more important things. Must be low on the list.

May be not a big issue with font icons but projects living on github can be tricky to just auto update. Must read “issues” threads to get real info from devs. Even Twitter! Take Super Fish which I tried to pimp when there is a chance. Is STILL getting updated so if you on any random day just put it in you could kick own butt. Or some Jump Start users will do it for you! Needs to stabilize. So not that easy… but yeah you should have updated already, lol. Cant exclude issues though, like the Opera Mobile thing he now have decided to look at.

[Jason Bobich]

Yeah, have to be careful. I was just looking at updating Bootstrap and noticed a little note there (don’t think it was there before) that you must have the latest version of jQuery. This won’t be the case for WP users or at least I would never override default jQuery version of WordPress as a theme author.

[karlo]

I also posted about Bootstrap version 3.0 being close because progress meter indicates that. Absolutely not according to main dev. A guy put up a site about Bootstrap 3.0 and he was kindly requested to take it down as it was far from finished. Only few days ago. Can take some months then – the impression I got. Too lazy to find “issues” thread but he was very specific about this. Is probably in the big/long one about Bootstrap 3.0. If it was close, like progress meter hints, he would have enjoyed the hype, heh. Devs. probably starting to feel a great need NOT to mess up. Might have a fixed “beta” period and so on.

I think Jump Start featuring Bootstrap 3.0 will be late summer if that.

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