Fix Font Awesome 6 loading Font Awesome 5 glyphs (blank X/Twitter icon)

changelog.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 = 1.2.21 =
+* Fixed Font Awesome 6 loading its glyphs from a leftover Font Awesome 5.15.3 font directory. The bundled stylesheet asked for "../webfonts/", which resolves out of assets/css/fontawesome6/ and into the old assets/css/webfonts/, so every icon added after 5.15.3 rendered as a blank gap -- the X (Twitter) icon in the footer social links being the visible one
+* Removed the orphaned Font Awesome 5 font files, which nothing referenced once the path above was corrected. The release zip drops from 3.16 MB to 1.88 MB
 * Fixed the theme's Font Awesome 6 never loading on sites running Elementor or any other plugin that registers the generic "font-awesome" handle. WordPress keeps only the first registration of a handle, so the theme's stylesheet was silently dropped and every fa-brands / fa-solid icon -- the social links, the search button, the menu and pagination arrows -- rendered as a blank box. It now uses its own "shapely-font-awesome" handle
 * Fixed the customizer loading Font Awesome from .../shapely/inc/assets/css/..., a path that has never existed, so the customizer's own icons 404'd
 * Fixed related posts on portfolio items returning the wrong posts when the portfolio taxonomies are not registered: wp_get_object_terms() returns a WP_Error there, and it was being passed straight into the query

functions.php

@@ -296,8 +296,13 @@ function shapely_scripts() {
 	 * on any site running it the theme's Font Awesome 6 never loaded at all --
 	 * and the theme's fa-brands / fa-solid classes do not exist in 4.x, which
 	 * is why the social, search and menu icons rendered as blank boxes.
+ *
+ * Versioned with SHAPELY_VERSION, not the Font Awesome version. The latter
+ * never changes when the bundled file does, and this stylesheet is served
+ * cache-control: immutable for a year -- a corrected copy would not have
+ * reached a single returning visitor or CDN edge.
 	 */
-	wp_enqueue_style( 'shapely-font-awesome', $uri . '/assets/css/fontawesome6/all.min.css', array(), '6.4.2' );
+	wp_enqueue_style( 'shapely-font-awesome', $uri . '/assets/css/fontawesome6/all.min.css', array(), SHAPELY_VERSION );
 
 	// Add Google Fonts
 	wp_enqueue_style( 'shapely-fonts', 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway:100,300,400,500,600,700&display=swap', array(), null );

inc/libraries/epsilon-framework/class-epsilon-framework.php

@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ public function customizer_enqueue_scripts() {
 		 * Elementor and others register, making this a silent no-op on those sites.
 		 * Reuse the theme's handle so both screens load the same file once.
 		 */
-		wp_enqueue_style( 'shapely-font-awesome', get_template_directory_uri() . '/assets/css/fontawesome6/all.min.css', array(), '6.4.2' );
+		wp_enqueue_style( 'shapely-font-awesome', get_template_directory_uri() . '/assets/css/fontawesome6/all.min.css', array(), SHAPELY_VERSION );
 		wp_enqueue_style( 'epsilon-styles', EPSILON_URI . '/assets/css/style.css' );
 	}
 

readme.txt

@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ This page template is used to create the Parallax homepage from our demo : https
 == Changelog ==
 
 = 1.2.21 =
+* Fixed Font Awesome 6 loading its glyphs from a leftover Font Awesome 5.15.3 font directory. The bundled stylesheet asked for "../webfonts/", which resolves out of assets/css/fontawesome6/ and into the old assets/css/webfonts/, so every icon added after 5.15.3 rendered as a blank gap -- the X (Twitter) icon in the footer social links being the visible one
+* Removed the orphaned Font Awesome 5 font files, which nothing referenced once the path above was corrected. The release zip drops from 3.16 MB to 1.88 MB
 * Fixed the theme's Font Awesome 6 never loading on sites running Elementor or any other plugin that registers the generic "font-awesome" handle. WordPress keeps only the first registration of a handle, so the theme's stylesheet was silently dropped and every fa-brands / fa-solid icon -- the social links, the search button, the menu and pagination arrows -- rendered as a blank box. It now uses its own "shapely-font-awesome" handle
 * Fixed the customizer loading Font Awesome from .../shapely/inc/assets/css/..., a path that has never existed, so the customizer's own icons 404'd
 * Fixed related posts on portfolio items returning the wrong posts when the portfolio taxonomies are not registered: wp_get_object_terms() returns a WP_Error there, and it was being passed straight into the query