# Adding a custom SVG to a plugin
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-custom-svg-to-a-plugin/327148
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [September 18, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-custom-svg-to-a-plugin/327148 "2024-09-18T20:59:37Z")
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### Author:  [@Alteras](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alteras)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-custom-svg-to-a-plugin/327148/1 "2024-09-18T20:59:37Z")
I am looking to add a custom SVG icon to a plugin I am working on, but couldn’t find any documentation or topics on how to do so. All the documentation seems to be on doing it for a theme.
The `register_svg_icon` function seems to be only for FA icons, based on other plugin repos I’ve seen.
I imagine I can probably just put the SVG inside the public folder and pull it like a normal image, but I’d like to avoid it as a last resort.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-custom-svg-to-a-plugin/327148/2 "2024-09-18T21:17:16Z")
`register_svg_icon` will work for any SVG, it isn’t specific to Font Awesome
So you’d add a new sprite with your icon, like `svg-icons/sprite.svg` — the guidance on the spritesheet is the same as [Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-discourses-default-svg-icons-with-custom-icons-in-a-theme/115736) (so make sure to set an id)
Then in `plugin.rb` you can do:
`register_svg_icon "my-svg-id`"
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### Author:  [@Alteras](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alteras)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-custom-svg-to-a-plugin/327148/3 "2024-09-18T23:10:30Z")
It works! Thank you!
I don’t suppose there’s a way to have the server watch for changes to the SVG file? Its a very minor inconvenience to refresh the page (and sometimes the dev server itself) every time I change the SVG.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-custom-svg-to-a-plugin/327148/4 "2024-10-18T23:10:40Z")
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