Social Networks Links by Performance Foundry

Easily add any links to your social networks accounts to your website, using a widget, shortcode or adding a function to your template.

Author:Performance Foundry (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:4.6
WordPress version tested:5.6.4
Plugin version:0.3.0
Added to WordPress repository:08-02-2017
Last updated:14-01-2021
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:http://performancefoundry.com
Total downloads:735
Active installs:10+
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Easily add links to your social networks accounts to your website, using a widget, shortcode or adding a function to your template.

This plugin uses Font Awesome Icons to illustrate the social networks links, you can disable it completely and use your own icons adding a custom class to the link or disable font awesome loading from the plugin if it already exists in your theme.

Basic Usage

Widget

  • Go to Appearance->Widgets screen
  • Add Foundry Social Networks Links to the desired Widget Area
  • Set the widget title and check if you want to display the social network name along with it’s icon

Shortcode

  • Add the shortcode [foundry_social_links display_name="false"]
  • Display Name parameter accepts two option true for displaying the social network name and false to hide it.

Function

  • Add foundry_the_social_networks( $display_name ) to echo the social networks HTML, you can set $display_name to true or false
  • Add foundry_get_social_networks() to return an array of the available social networks and its settings

Available Plugin Settings

General Settings

  • Enable/Disable the usage of Font Awesome Icons
  • Enable/Disable the usage of Font Awesome 5 Icons (using external stylesheet) – FA5 library is not included in the plugin, use this option if your theme or another plugins uses FA5.
  • Enable/Disable the usage of plugin’s own Font Awesome Stylesheet and font
  • Enable/Disable the usage of plugin’s own stylesheet
  • Enable/Disable the links open in the same window

Social Network Links Settings

For each Social network you can configure:

  • Name (Insert any text you want)
  • Font Awesome Icon to show (Select a Font Awesome icon using a picker)
  • Custom Class (Define a custom class for each social network)
  • Color (Define the Background color for each link)
  • URL (Define the URL for the social network)