#GenesisWP – Adding Font Awesome Icons to Your WordPress Menu

all right welcome to press Avenue calm we just had a question sent in from our just asked area asking basically how we added these icons so twitter facebook pinterest google+ and instagram to our top bar and we have an answer right here we didn't use a plug-in which was originally asked we kind of did it the manual way so I'll kind of walk you through it so to do that we opened our functions.php file mind you that we are using the Genesis framework and so this will be different if you're not so let's see open this up the script we use is right here it says make font awesome available or basically using font awesome icons to show these so we're going to add the action and then here's the details here will include this just below in the post itself to show you how to copy and paste this in so if I go over to my functions file some other scripts are loaded just under that I've added this one and then I go ahead and save it then in the word press menu itself i canno to menu and then we call it our top primary if you look right here we have just asked and then we have the code so basically what we've done is we've called in font awesome right here so we're making it available we went to font awesome over here and we went to icons found the icon we wanted so there's the Facebook ones simply clicked it and it shows it right here copy the class went to menu and then added it here under navigation label additionally under screen options I turned on link target and then classes Ron as well for a different menu item but right here we can open in a new window or tab which is ideal for facebook or any other social media if you look here under the just asked that is not available and then we saved it and when you refresh and go to the front you'll see the icons are there and then when you click them so click Twitter it opens a new tab as it should and here we are so that's it for adding icons the manual way to Genesis if you have any questions just let us know we do have this just ask button up here and we do appreciate you using it thanks also subscribe below if you like these and we'll post more thank you