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Advanced Social Media Icons

Description

Advanced Social Media Icons

This plugin shows a social media icon when you display a shortcode. The icon is clickable and fully customizable.

Attributes

You can customize the plugin with attributes:

  1. url – Links the icon to a url when pressed, use http://
  2. src – Which social platform you want to use
  3. id – There are 3 types of icons for every social media platform. The standard square icon doesn’t need an id but for the round icon use id=1 and hex icon use id=2 .
  4. height – Enter the amount of pixels of height, standard is 55px
  5. width – Enter the amount of pixels of width, standard is 55px
  6. align – Align the icon on the right position
  7. alt – Give alt text with ur icon, good for SEO

Types

There are three types of icons. Square, round and hexagon.
To display round icons use id=1 and for hexagon use id=2 .

Shortcode

The plugin uses shortcodes to display the icons. For example [social url=http://twitter.com src=twitter] .
Other example are:

  1. [social url=http://www.facebook.com src=facebook height=50px width=60px]
  2. [social url=http://www.instagram.com/user src=instagram align=middle]
  3. [social url=http://www.linkedin.com src=linkedin id=1]

Installation

Upload the .zip file with a FTP program in the folder wp-content/plugins or upload via Worpress backend.

FAQ

How to display icons?

To use the icons write a shortcode example [social url=http://twitter.com src=twitter align=right]

Is there another icon for the same social media platform?

Yes there is, use the id attribute like so [social url=http://twitter.com src=twitter id=1 align=right]

The plugin is not working on my website how come?
  1. Check if your adblock is on.
  2. Check if you run the latest version of WordPress.

Reviews

March 31, 2017
The icon displays but all content that comes after the Facebook short code is hyperlinked. It's like it needs a closing tag to function properly.
September 3, 2016
Simple but good plugin
Read all 2 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“Advanced Social Media Icons” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.2

  • Added hexagon icons. To use these icons use id=2.

1.1

  • Now compatible with websites that use HTTPS / SSl.