Social icons play a crucial role in keeping your guests updated on the latest trends, products, and offers.
Tendenci offers numerous features that empower users to design their webpages according to their preferences. Whether you want to incorporate social icons in the header or footer of your site, there are multiple methods to do so.
Option 1: Adding the icons in the Logo or Footer Links box
Look at the logo on the top of your site. Close to the logo, you will see a link that says Edit Logo Box.
Once you click on the link, it will take you to edit the Logo Box. In the content box, add the social icons.
You can either drag and drop them directly to the content box or click on the image icon (pointed by the arrow), upload the image, and then insert the image on the page.
Adding the social icons in the footer is the same process. Look in the footer for the Edit Footer-Links Box. Once you click on it, it will take you to edit the content in the footer box.
Option 2: Create another box for the social icons
This method involves editing the script in the theme editor. Head to the theme editor in the admin menu.
In the theme editor, look for the header.html on the left column.
Look for the lines 10 - 15. Copy the lines and paste them underneath the 15 lines.
Change the box # containing the social icons. The boxes ID can be found in the boxes module https://YOURSITEHERE/admin/boxes/box/
For example: {% box 1%} to {% box 13%}
For example: {% box 1%} to {% box 13%}
For the footer, look for the footer.html on the left column in the Theme Editor.
Add {% box # %} under the line 14.
Option 3: Add the icons directly to the Header and Footer HTML
You can skip the boxes and place the icons directly in the header.html or footer.html in the Theme Editor.
This option requires more expertise in the subject of CSS or HTML since a script needs to be added to the HTML.
To add the social icons to the header/footer.html script, you first need to add the icons as a file.
You can visit this help file to learn how to add files to the site: Uploading a File
The icons can be added using the file's source link. Make sure to use just the secure link and not the domain since it will change once the site goes live.
*Remember to always save your changes*
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