From Codex: $icon_url […] * Pass a base64-encoded SVG using a data URI, which will be colored to match the color scheme. This should begin with ‘data:image/svg+xml;base64,’. WordPress will change color of your SVG if you use SVG content instead of the file URL. (JS code responsible for changing the color is in svg-painter.js file.) … Read more
You need something like Fontastic or Grunticon to create your custom fonts/icons. Then just add your fonts to your html with wp_enqueue_style() or add the head elements directly. There is a section on the Genericons GitHub that describes Building your own Genericons using FontCustom or Fontello.
add_menu_page(); as far as I can tell does not work with screen_icon or the default CSS parameters. The $icon paramater only takes 2 options, an url or div (well 3 if you leave it empty), so that leaves you with these options: Hard-code the link to the icons which are located in wp-includes/images/wpicons.png. This is … Read more
Assuming you’re running WP 3.8, you can choose from a collection of icons (listed here). In your case, replace your icon URL with dashicons-admin-page, like so: add_menu_page( ‘Info’, ‘Info’, ‘manage_options’, ‘LINK’, ”, ‘dashicons-admin-page’, 10 ); You can use these icons in various places around WP. There are various articles on this like this one.
Yes, you can replace existing icons by overwriting them via CSS. Make sure to check if the existing icon is set via img or background-image and add some CSS to overwrite it with one of the available icons. You can find all available icons and the appropriate selector at the Dashicons Website. To replace the … Read more
Take a close look at add_menu_page hook, it provides argument to supply with icon url <?php add_menu_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $function, $icon_url, $position ); http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_menu_page add_menu_page( __(‘Poll’,’menu-test’), __(‘Poll’,’menu-test’), ‘manage_options’, ‘manage-polls’, ‘poll_page’, ‘plugins_folder Or Theme folder url/icon.png’ );
We will hook into init and remove actions as followed: function disable_wp_emojicons() { // all actions related to emojis remove_action( ‘admin_print_styles’, ‘print_emoji_styles’ ); remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘print_emoji_detection_script’, 7 ); remove_action( ‘admin_print_scripts’, ‘print_emoji_detection_script’ ); remove_action( ‘wp_print_styles’, ‘print_emoji_styles’ ); remove_filter( ‘wp_mail’, ‘wp_staticize_emoji_for_email’ ); remove_filter( ‘the_content_feed’, ‘wp_staticize_emoji’ ); remove_filter( ‘comment_text_rss’, ‘wp_staticize_emoji’ ); // filter to remove TinyMCE emojis add_filter( … Read more