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Social Icon Widget

Description

The icons will show in the front end when you add your link in the widget, other wise the incon will not show in your website front end. This is an amazing option for a website That unused social icons will not show in the front end. Only the linked icons will show in the front end.

Screenshots

  • Social Icons with hover effect.

Installation

/// Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

  1. First download the plugin ZIP file from WordPress website
  2. Log in to your website administrator panel
  3. Go to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard, click Upload Plugin
  4. Upload Social Icon Widget ZIP file by choosing it from your computer
  5. Click Install Now button
  6. Then click Activate Plugin button.
  7. You can see the Social Icon Widget in the widget section ‘Appearance > widgets’.

/// Using The WordPress Plugin Dashboard

  1. Go to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
  2. Search for ‘Social Icon Widget’
  3. Click Install Now button
  4. Then click Activate Plugin button
  5. You can see the Social Icon Widget in the widget section ‘Appearance > widgets’.

/// Using FTP

  1. Download the ZIP file from WordPress website
  2. Extract the social icon widget directory to your computer
  3. Upload the social icon widget directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  4. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
  5. You can see the Social Icon Widget in the widget section ‘Appearance > widgets’.

Now you can use it as a normal widget from the widget section of your WordPress dashboard. Just drag and drop the widget in any widget area and set the social profile links which you need. You do not need to use all the URL fields, if you enter a link in a URL field, only that icon will show in the front end.

FAQ

Installation Instructions

/// Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

  1. First download the plugin ZIP file from WordPress website
  2. Log in to your website administrator panel
  3. Go to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard, click Upload Plugin
  4. Upload Social Icon Widget ZIP file by choosing it from your computer
  5. Click Install Now button
  6. Then click Activate Plugin button.
  7. You can see the Social Icon Widget in the widget section ‘Appearance > widgets’.

/// Using The WordPress Plugin Dashboard

  1. Go to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
  2. Search for ‘Social Icon Widget’
  3. Click Install Now button
  4. Then click Activate Plugin button
  5. You can see the Social Icon Widget in the widget section ‘Appearance > widgets’.

/// Using FTP

  1. Download the ZIP file from WordPress website
  2. Extract the social icon widget directory to your computer
  3. Upload the social icon widget directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  4. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
  5. You can see the Social Icon Widget in the widget section ‘Appearance > widgets’.

Now you can use it as a normal widget from the widget section of your WordPress dashboard. Just drag and drop the widget in any widget area and set the social profile links which you need. You do not need to use all the URL fields, if you enter a link in a URL field, only that icon will show in the front end.

How to get the most recent version of the plugin?

You will find update notification in your wordpress admin panel.

How to use this plugin?

To use this plugin, see the installation of the plugin. after installing the plugin, you will see it in the widget section of your WordPress dashboard “Appearance > widget”. Drag and deop it as like other widget in any widget area then put a title in your widget and put your social medial profile links how much you need.

Reviews

3 верасня, 2016
A very useful plugin for adding links to social networks with proper options in the back end. Thumbs up for you guys. !!!
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Contributors & Developers

“Social Icon Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.0

  • Initial Release.

1.0.1

  • Added new verion of fonts.