Adding Social Networks to your Site
With Granite we’ve made social network settings easy. You can add your social media accounts to your site so that users can find your other accounts and build your following.
Link Social Media Accounts
With Flothemes we make it easy to link your social media accounts.
Go to Flothemes > General Settings > Social Media:
Add Social Network
To add new, Click on Add Social Networks:
When setting up each social profile icon it is necessary to add the following information:
- Social network name. The name is used to provide the default icons for the supported services. We provide icons for the following social networks: facebook, twitter, gplus, yahoo, dribbble, linkedin, vimeo, youtube, tumblr, delicious, flickr, instagram, pinterest. And it is important to know that if you want to use the built in font icons, you should use the exact same name as we provide in the list above.
- Social Network URL (i.e. http://facebook.com/flothemes)
- Icon Image(optional) – in case you don’t like the default icons
- Icon Image Hover(optional) – in case you don’t like the default icons
After all the social profile icons are added, you can sort them by using drag and drop.
Social Sharing Settings
Below the social networks you will see that we have added options allowing you to select social sharing options.
NOTE! Social sharing options are not links to your account, they are the most common sharing platforms for users, facebook, twitter, etc. It will generate a link to the specific post for this platform.
Turn on and off the options as required.
Social Network Widget
A way of adding the social profile icons, is by using the Social Networks widget. The widget can be used in any available widget area:
You can add widgets in Appearance > Widgets in the WordPress backend.