How to change the mobile menu icon in WordPress block themes
Standard WordPress block themes do not expose an option in the theme editor to upload or change the default mobile burger menu icon. Because the editor lacks built-in controls for this, site owners are forced to rely on custom CSS or workarounds just to modify a basic mobile navigation graphic.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Hiding the default SVG using CSS and setting a custom background-image or mask-image via Additional CSS.
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
Where this came up
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