WP Plugin

Enable Button Icons

Add icons to the core/button block

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Type

WordPress Plugin

License

Open Source

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GitHub Releases

Latest

v1.2.1

Requires

WP 6.9+, PHP 8.2+

01

What It Does

The WordPress Button block has always been limited when it comes to icons. You could fake it with emoji or wrestle with custom HTML, but there was no clean native way to add an icon alongside your button label.

This plugin adds a proper Icon panel to the block sidebar. Choose an icon, set its size, pick left or right. It renders sanitized inline SVG on the frontend with no extra requests.

  • WordPress icons and MUI icon libraries built in
  • Custom SVG input for anything else
  • Icon position left or right
  • Size control using any CSS unit
  • Sanitized inline SVG on the frontend
  • GitHub-based auto-updates inside WP admin
Copy Code
use Bmd\EnableButtonIcons\Plugin;

$dependency_url  = plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'vendor/bmd/enable-button-icons/';
$dependency_path = plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . 'vendor/bmd/enable-button-icons/';

$plugin = new Plugin(
    $dependency_url,
    $dependency_path
);

$plugin->mount();

02

The Build

This started as a fork of Nick Diego’s original plugin. The core idea was solid, but the architecture needed a rewrite to match how I build things now.

It uses a service-based PHP architecture, a modern TypeScript build pipeline, and ships with a scoped GitHub updater so WordPress can pull new versions directly from releases. Install it as a standalone plugin or embed it as a Composer dependency inside your own project.

WP 6.9+

Webpack

SCSS

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PHP 8.2+