Disable font awesome request

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#1

Hey there,
I’d like to disable the font awesome request completely, strip it from the the theme at best. I only use it a single time in my footer and this icon is going to be replaced my an .svg of mine. I know that it is not recommended, but I don’t mind loosing this functionality.
Thanks for your help guys!

my page: https://zerotoone.de/

#2

Hi There,

Thanks for writing in! We do not recommend performing this action. Please follow this post for more details (https://theme.co/apex/forum/t/can-i-remove-disable-font-awesome-request/9464/3?u=mldarshana).

Thanks!

#3

thanks for the link, but this did not help. In the thread you send me, the staff does not explain the process of removing font awesome

#4

Hi there,

You can’t remove it, it’s part of the core. You can remove the files through FTP, like /framework/fonts/font_awesome/ and cornerstone\assets\dist-app\fonts. But it will not disable the requests, the requests are still there but with 404.

@font-face only loads font files if they are needed on the page. Another approach would be to override any styles that apply font-family: "FontAwesome"; using custom CSS.

Thanks!

#5

but the core can be manipulated by me, there is a line of code somewhere that requests this file

#6

Hi there,

Sure, you can do that too but please note that update could overwrite it again. Should be under this files

cornerstone\assets\dist-app\css\cs.css
cornerstone\assets\dist-app\css\preview.css
cornerstone\assets\dist\css\site\style.css
\framework\css\dist\site\stacks{YOUR SELECTED STACK}.css

And it’s similar to this

@font-face { font-family: 'FontAwesome'; src: url("../../dist-app/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot?v=4.7.0");

Thanks!

#7

thank you very much! I tried to delete the files you gave me, but the request for the font was still there.

#8

Hi again,

It looks like you’re using Rocket Loader, please clear all cache and check your site again.

Let us know how this goes!

#9

I deleted the all files you gave me, only the lines with “fontawesome” were deleted in
\framework\css\dist\site\stacks{YOUR SELECTED STACK}.css
cache of my wprocket plugin was cleaned and refilled again, no change, the font is still requested

#10

Hi There,

I only saw two 2 google fonts are loading on your website and didn’t see the FontAwesome.

Could you please double check?

Thank you.

#11

I fixed it by getting the font awesome icon out of my footer

#12

Glad you’ve fixed it.

Cheers!

#13

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