I installed a component that only allows me to put icons in my forum tags through the fontawesome website, but I want to use my own icons, how do I upload them and use them? [image]

thanks for replying, i was wanting to use this [image] Custom Header Links (icons) Theme component discourse2 Summary Custom Header Links (icons) will allow you to easily add linked icons to the Discourse header. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse…

Oh. I suspect that you’ll need to do a bit of work to make that happen. I changed your title accordingly, so hopefully it’ll get attention from someone who knows more about that theme component. It says [image] Custom Header Links (icons) Icon can be any FontAwesome 5 (free) icon name without …

Adding custom icons is now supported, as of this commit: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-icon-header-links/pull/8 When adding a header link in the theme setting, paste in a url to an icon and it should be present in the header.

Hi! thank you for answering me and for helping me! How do I install this?

Hi @danielabc You simply need to navigate to your components in /admin/customize/themes, find the Icon Header Links component. If it’s not on the latest update, you should see a button to update. [update button] After updating the theme component, in your theme settings where you configure each …

How to use my own SVG icons in Custom Header Links theme component?

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How to use my own SVG icons in Custom Header Links theme component?

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