I have discovered that the AGP Font Awesome Collection plugin breaks SO CSS. What happens is that the visual interface of SO CSS ceases to work and will only let you navigate your pages — can’t click to change anything and can’t add any CSS. The only thing that continues working in this situation is hand-writing your CSS in the SO CSS interface before going to a page.
I discovered this by having to deactivate all my plugins and then turning them on one by one and, voila, AGP Font Awesome Collection is the guilty plugin. All my other plugins now work fine as well as SO CSS.
Is this a known problem? I think it begs the request for SO to consider making a list of “known problem plugins” as it would certainly be a great service and source of reference for all SO’ers!!!
The AGP Font Awesome Collection is really a good plugin. Any thoughts on what other (and *compatible*) plugin can be used for the same functionality?
Hi Rob,
Unfortunately, yes, this is a known plugin conflict. I’ll log your feedback request. Currently, this is the only plugin officially marked as a plugin conflict. There are others, but the chance of you using them is very unlikely as they’re active install count is sub 10,000.
To clarify, what use case are you using this plugin in? I ask as if you’re using SiteOrigin Page Builder you could use the SiteOrigin Buttons widget as we include full Font Awesome support by default.
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the update. Is there a page on your site that lists all the plugins that don’t work? I usually use 10K as a line in the sand as to whether or not I use a plugin, but there are times that I will try if less because of the value of the plugin, so this information could save me (and others) a boatload of time!
My use case is that I am trying to use an icon instead of a bullet on a post with the ability to change the color and size of the icon. AGP is apparently the only thing out there that can do this, integrated in the edit menu. I would love to be able to do this in SO Builder using the icon or other widget, but then I fear I will have to actually write a blog with SO Builder pieces and that is not good.
The alternative is to just remember to deactivate AGP before using SO CSS, but that’s not very good either.
Any ideas on how to do this in SO Builder?
Rob->
Hi Rob,
Unfortunately, no, there’s not. I would recommend doing a search of the plugin and then the relevant plugin if you’re worried about it but for the vast majority of plugins, it’ll work without issue. Regardless of this, I’ve logged your feedback regarding this.
Okay, so that’s actually really quite tricky (structure wise) as CSS doesn’t have an easy method of allowing that. Sadly, I’m not aware of a plugin that will allow this at this time. :(
Maybe you could fake the effect by adding an icon as the first character in a sentence? If that sounds okay I can walk you through the steps.
Hi Alex,
Yeah, I actually do that now (fake bullet) with this using AGP:
[fac_icon icon=”lightbulb-o” color=”#0000ff” font_size=”1.5em”] Your Idea Counts: How to successfully implement ideas in a global customer community
Reading up on Fontawesome, I see I can do this by editing the html in WP to add (instead of the AGP shortcode):
in front of the sentence, adding the size. But how do change the icon color? Any ideas on doing that? I’ve tried a with color, adding style in the — nothing changes the color which, to me, is a very basic property.
Also, the other good thing about AGP is that I can add an icon to the main menu.
Rob->
Hi Rob-SO,
You’ll need to use CSS for that. For example:
Although that HTML may or may not work depending on your theme. If it doesn’t, do you have a public URL where we can take a look at what’s going on?