Introducing Font Awesome 5 and SVG icons

  1. Use the plugin rails generator to create a plugin.
  2. Download Font Awesome Pro for web.
  3. Unzip the file and add the sprites folder to your local Discourse folder per the “In plugins: simply…” instructions above.
  4. Push to Github.
  5. Add the plugin to your YML.
  6. Rebuild the app.

Boom. You got Font Awesome Pro. I just did it and it miraculously worked on the first try. haha

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