WordPress - Editing & Adding Social Media Icons

Social media is an excellent platform to keep in touch with your family, your friends and most importantly, your customers. You can use social media to post updates, post pictures/videos, share news, engage with your customers and even market/promote your business with a click of a button!

We have made it simple to edit your social media icons on your website, thus allowing your customer to preview your Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and many other social media platforms you use.

To edit or add your social media icons, you must go to your Website (at the top of your IO account, select "Admin Login" which will direct you to your WordPress Dashboard. On the left hand side, you will locate "Pages", "All Pages", scroll down and locate "Home - Front Page, Elementor". Below this, you will see an option to "Edit with Elementor" and it will direct you to edit your website.


***You will have to go to your social media platform and obtain the page URL. Once obtained, copy this link, as we will need to paste this***

To edit your icons, follow the steps below:

  1. Click on the banner that says "Edit Header" 
  2. Locate social media icons
  3. Select the icons
  4. Navigate to the left hand side of your screen and find the icon you would like to paste your page URL to
  5. Below the icon, you will see an area named "Link" and this is where you paste in your page URL

To add your social media icons, follow the steps below:

  1. Click on the banner that says "Edit Header"
  2. Locate social icon widget (you may need to search for these using the search bar)
  3. Drag and drop this widget to place it where you would like your icons to display
  4. To add different icons other than displayed, select "+ Add Item"
  5. Hover over the icon, select "Icon Library" and select which social media platform you would like to add (we find it easier to use the left hand side bar, go to "All Icons", type and search for the icon you would like to add)
  6. Once you've chosen your icons, select "Insert" at the bottom of the page
  7. Below the icon, you will see an area named "Link" and this is where you paste in your page URL
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