Advanced Social Icons
Plugin demo instructions and functionality described how to use the plugin using each functionality please check ahead for the more scroll it to down.
Documentation
Please see the documentation of the “Advanced Social icons” plugin.Overview
Advanced social icons help you quickly add icons with links to your profiles on different social media platforms. The plugin uses icons from Font Awesome, which gives you the possibility to display various popular social icons via widgets. You can use custom icons to add links to anything you want.
No configuration is necessary, other than having links to your social media profiles in the built-in WordPress menus. Add links to any of these social sites under Appearance > Menus, then enable the plugin.
Features And Options:
- Supports FontAwesome icons.
- Support custom icons
- Drag and drop for icon sorting.
- Option to easily change icon size.
- More features coming on updates.
Getting Started
Requirements –
To get the best experience with this Advanced Social Icons plugin, we recommend the following:
PHP 7.4 or later
MySQL 5.6 or later
WordPress 4.7 or later
To be sure about the above requirements, contact your hosting vendor.
Installation & Activation –
This content explains how to install the plugin and get it working.
This plugin can be installed directly from your site.
- Log in and navigate to Plugins → Add New.
- Type “Advanced Social icons” into the Search and hit Enter.
- Locate the Advanced Social icons plugin in the list of search results and click Install now.
- Once installed, click the Activate link.
It can also be installed manually.
- Download the Advanced Social icons plugin from WordPress.org.
- Unzip the package and move it to your plugins directory.
- Login to the WordPress and navigate to the Plugins screen.
- Locate the Advanced Social icons in the list and click the Activate link.
Settings
Backend Settings –
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FAQs
Ans. Advance Social Icons is dependent on the FontAwesome icon library.
If an icon exists in FontAwesome, you can add a filter for it using the asi_networks_social_icons example shown in the plugin description.
If an icon does not exist in FontAwesome, you can add custom icon in your menu item and set custom size yourself.
Ans. Yes. The plugin installs the complete FontAwesome package. You can use any of the icons in your HTML.
Ans. Yes, you can display the title with Font Awesome icons only. In the next version, we’ll update to have this work with custom icons.
To display the icon title, add this to your theme’s functions.php file:
add_filter( 'asi_social_icons_hide_text', '__return_false' );
Ans. To display a custom icon, simply click the choose icon button in the menu item and adjust the size from the drop-down. You can manually define the size of the icon, too.
Ans. To display icons please follow these steps.
- Create a menu under Appearance > Menus.
- Choose any of the social icons from the Social Icons tab from the Add menu items column.
- Once the item to the menu, save it.
- Go to Appearance > Widgets, You can drag the navigation menu/custom menu widget in your sidebars and change the settings from the widget form itself.
- Call this sidebar to display social icons anywhere, on your site.