Help replicating old Umbraco 8 Font Awesome Icons package in Umbraco 13

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Hello all,

I’m upgrading an Umbraco 8 project which uses this U8 Font Awesome Icons | Links | Buttons package to allow some social media links to be shown in the footer of the website.

It enables you to select a Font Awesome icon and enter a matching link like so:

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The package or similar is not available in Umbraco 13 so in I’m trying to replicate the functionality.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

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Hey @MrMattTaylor :waving_hand:

Have you seen the successor of that package GitHub - creativesuspects/SvgIconPropertyEditor: Several SVG icon related property editors for Umbraco 10+? That says 10, but can’t imagine it would be much work to push through to 13 - the author even has a version they are willing to share.

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Thanks for pointing put that package Richard as I wasn’t aware of it.

Like you say I could probably get it going to U13 however the author says that beyond that it will be a lot more work.

I think it may be simpler if I create an element type that combines the Iconic package and a url picker and use it in a block list. :thinking:

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I don’t know exactly what this package can do, so maybe it’s not an alternative, but know that Contentment has an icon picker you can use to create custom icon sets:

I mean, maybe you can use the Umbraco 10 version, but when you go to Umbraco 14+, you run into the same issue, whereas Contentment has an excellent track record.