Icons API: Add wp_get_icon() to render registered icons as inline SVG#12010
Icons API: Add wp_get_icon() to render registered icons as inline SVG#12010t-hamano wants to merge 2 commits into
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Introduce a procedural wrapper around `WP_Icons_Registry` so themes and plugins can render any registered core icon as an inline SVG from PHP, mirroring the React `<Icon>` component. This bridges the gap for PHP contexts that otherwise depend on the deprecated dashicons font. `wp_get_icon()` looks up the icon content via the registry and uses `WP_HTML_Tag_Processor` to apply configurable `size` and `class` attributes, plus accessibility handling: a `label` produces `role="img"` and `aria-label`, while its absence marks the icon `aria-hidden="true"`. The function lives in a new `icons.php`, following the established registry-class-plus-procedural-API pairing used by connectors.php and abilities.php. Props ... Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The test file only covers wp_get_icon(); the_wp_icon() does not exist. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This PR adds
wp_get_icon(), a procedural wrapper aroundWP_Icons_Registrythat returns a registered icon as an inline SVG string.Based on WordPress/gutenberg#78332.
Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64847
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Model(s): Claude Opus 4.8
Used for: Porting the function and PHPUnit tests from the referenced Gutenberg PR to core conventions. I reviewed and tested the result; all 9 tests pass.
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