Installing newest version of Font Awesome

[jumler1]

Hello, I have Joomla 3.10.12 and I would like to install newest Font Awesome, I need new icons. I also use Gantry 5.

How to do that, can anyone help me?

[AMurray]

This is not really a Joomla question as such; you're also asking about a Joomla version that reached EOL in August 2023, so there will be no further support or development for J3.10 (for new features).

There is extended support (paid) provided by third parties (not the Joomla dev team) but the intent of that is to continue updating the CMS (security and stability) and assisting with J4 migrations until Feb 2025.

The best advice I can offer is to read the instructions on FontAwesome website:

• FA 5 https://fontawesome.com/v5/docs/web/setup/get-started
• FA 6 https://fontawesome.com/v6/docs/web/setup/get-started.

Note that Joomla 4 comes with FA v5 not v6. Perhaps Joomla 5 will come with FA 6 (J5 due for stable release in October 2023).

So maybe consider migrating to J4 (Gantry 5 is compatible with J4) for now is the answer, and then eventually to Joomla 5.

In the meantime I found this (for Joomla 4): https://extensions.joomla.org/extension ... me-button/.

I can't find anything similar for J3.10.

[jumler1]

Ok, thanks for the effort! So, in your opinion, I can't update on Font Awesome 6 in Joomla 3.10.12 and Gantry 5.

Any other help?

[SharkyKZ]

You can upload new version to "custom" directory of your template https://docs.gantry.org/gantry5/advance ... rk-library.

[jumler1]

You can upload new version to "custom" directory of your template https://docs.gantry.org/gantry5/advance ... rk-library.

Great, can you please provide more detailed information about how to do that?

[jumler1]

Anyone figured out how to put Font Awesome 6 to Joomla 3.x?

[gws]

Anyone figured out how to put Font Awesome 6 to Joomla 3.x?

I suspect you are the only person interested, J3.x is obsolete, Gantry team seem to have given up.
Time to bite the bullet and upgrade your site.

[jumler1]

Hehe, ok

[douglaspantanal]

People seem to be focused on the fact that your site is 3.x. That isn't going to change the way you upgrade Fontawesome within Gantry. You should upgrade your site, you will be glad you did, but one tip is that the Gantry framework itself uses a fixed version of fontawesome, that is you can't change the version of font awesome that is displayed within the Gantry Framework as this is coded into Gantry, what you can change is the version of Fontawesome that appears on the frontend of your site. This adjustment is made in the template as the newer version of gantry allows you to choose between version 4 and 6 in the page settings. For version 7 or a paid version you need to add custom css as suggested by another post in this thread.