With WP Socializer – PRO version you can create custom icons. These custom icons can be added to all the features of WP Socializer i.e share icons, floating sharebar, follow icons, text sharebar and shortcodes.
This feature enable you to create your own icon which is not available with WP Socializer by default. These custom icons can have it’s own color and icon image. Once created you can pick this custom icon add it to any WP Socializer feature.
This is really helpful if you have a social network profile for which WP Socializer does not have an icon for. You can create your icon, and add it to the follow icons bar. You can also use it as a share button if the social network website supports a URL where links can be shared.
Creating/editing custom icons
To add custom icons download and install WP Socializer – PRO WordPress plugin on your website.
- Go to WP Socializer → Settings.
- Under Share icons settings section, click Add custom icon.
- In the Add new icon popup, enter the following information for the custom icon.
- ID – The ID of the custom icon
- Name – The name of the custom icon
- Color – The color of the custom icon
- Title – The title of the custom icon when the icon is hovered upon.
- Share link – The share link of the custom icon. You can use below placeholders in the URL as needed by the social network website. Example:
https://example.com/share?u={url}&t={title}. When visitors click the current page URL will be shared with that link. You can also have a link without any placeholder but this custom icon will be useful only in follow icons where you will provide the URL of the social network profile.{url}– The URL of the current page{title}– The title of the current page{excerpt}– The excerpt of the current post{short-url}– The short URL of the current post
- Icon – The icon for the custom icon. It can be an URL to an image (any image including
svg) or a name of a fontawesome icon. There are 2 different sizes can be selected for the icon as mentioned below,- Fit inside – With this, the image will be inside the icon.
- Full icon – With this, the full image will be used as the icon.
- Click Add icon to add the icon to the custom icons list.
- Click Save settings at the bottom of the page to save the settings.
- Now you can open any WP Socializer feature Share icons, Floating sharebar, Follow icons, Text sharebar, Shortcodes and add the custom icons created.
To edit a custom icon, click Edit next to the custom icon name to open the editing form. To delete a custom icon, click Delete next to the custom icon name.
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