How-to: Adding Social Media Icons to Twenty Eleven Navigation

A question came up about adding social media icons to the navigation bar in a twenty eleven child theme, answers were given changing code in the header.php file.

The question came from a novice who was not sure about changing code, so thinking about this and how we can use WordPress to do most of what we wanted we came up with a simple solution.

This tutorial may help others and shows one way of using the Menu CSS Classes option, in the custom menu area.

David