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.
Overview
People affected2 accounts across 1 forum
Workarounds found1 item attempted
Community agreement9 total upvotes
What people tried
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- 1Hiding the default SVG using CSS and setting a custom background-image or mask-image via Additional CSS.Did this help you?
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r/Wordpress2 people · September 2026
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