Add Icons to WordPress Customizer Setting Panel
23 July 2026
Recently WordPress makes customizer necessary for all theme submitted WP directory if you are working with it then you must want to know how to place Icons in Customizer Options there are some other issue as well apart from just placing icons like mane of sanitization fields and making other change.
But today we just talk about how you can style your customizer using CSS and place Icons in customizer . For Icons you don’t need any external font icons because WordPress itself have some included Icons with package. You can check all dashicons here they are beautiful and under GPL licences or check on Github.
Here is you can see ID #accordion-panel-level_panel_geranal now you have ID of panel so you can use it in css but one more thing you should consider while using Icons if you used this ID only then icons will place into sub section and panel automatically under this panel. You need to point icon only to general settings class n above Picture second arrow point to it. So now you complete CSS looks like this #accordion-panel-panel_general > h3.accordion-section-title
Place Icon in Customizer Options
First step to create a CSS file name it whatever you prefer like customizer.css and now you just need to CSS Class and ID of every field option or section where you wish to place Icons may be in top panel or under section user developer tool to view panel CSS Class or ID as shown in below picture.
Here is you can see ID #accordion-panel-level_panel_geranal now you have ID of panel so you can use it in css but one more thing you should consider while using Icons if you used this ID only then icons will place into sub section and panel automatically under this panel. You need to point icon only to general settings class n above Picture second arrow point to it. So now you complete CSS looks like this #accordion-panel-panel_general > h3.accordion-section-title
CSS Styling
Lets start styling I use before and li to complete my css before for icons place.li#accordion-panel-level_panel_geranal > h3.accordion-section-title:before {
content: "\f107";
font-family: dashicons;
padding: 3px;
}
PHP Codes
Now save this file within your theme directory you also need a special code in function.php to call this file.function THEMENAME_custom_customize_enqueue() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'customizer-css', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/css/customizer-css.css' );
}
add_action( 'customize_controls_enqueue_scripts', 'THEMENAME_custom_customize_enqueue' );
That’s all you need to do with this method you can style your customizer in any way you want. If you have any question or query either want to know more about how to place icon in customizer please put in comment box.
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