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Display a list of links to your social accounts with beautiful icons and followers’ counts in pre-defined theme locations, sidebar widget or post content via a shortcode. Add social links for post authors with help of the new user contact fields.
Configuration
Follow these step to configure your social links:
- Navigate to Settings → Social Links.
- Enable the social accounts that you would like to display in the list of social links.
- For every added social link a new tab will appear.
- Open every tab and add your Username / User ID or User Slug. In most cases it’s the last part of the URL to your social account. For example for https://facebook.com/vogue, it will be simply vogue.
- Add your social links in Chloé pre-defined locations, your sidebar with a widget or page content with a shortcode.
Widget
This feature is available in themes that support widgets only.
To add a widget with your social links to your sidebar, navigate to Appearance → Widgets and drag the “Social Links” widgets to the target widget area.
Shortcode
You may display social links inside your post content by adding a shortcode to the WordPress editor:
[[powerkit_social_links labels="true" titles="true" counts="true" template="default" scheme="default"]]
Accepted Attributes
labels
Display labels for social links, for example Likes. Default is true
.
titles
Enabling will display titles of social networks, for example Facebook. Default is true
.
counts
Enabling will display followers’ counts. Default is true
.
template
Can be used for selecting of custom theme pre-defined and standard plugin-integrated templates. Default is default
.
scheme
Can be used for selecting of custom theme pre-defined and standard plugin-integrated color scheme. Default is default
.
User Fields
The Social Links module adds new fields to the user profile page. This way, you may add social links for a particular user (post author) and the whole website. The module also support Co-Authors plus and will add social links fields to guest and co-authors.
To add links to your social accounts for your user, please navigate to the WordPress dashboard to Users → Your Profile.
Supported Social Links
The following social networks are supported: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google Plus, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Spotify, Dribbble, Behance, GitHub, VK, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Bloglovin, RSS.
Please refer to this page for more information.