Advanced Social Media Icons

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]

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

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.

1.2

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

1.1

• Now compatible with websites that use HTTPS / SSl.