Social Links

Social Links is the list of profiles you want people to follow. It is one of the one-of-a-kind entries. There is exactly one, it is already there, and you open it and edit it.

Go to Content, then Social Links. One row is waiting. Click its title.

Warning

Leave Add New alone on this screen. It makes a second entry, and your website then has to guess which one is real. The tour of the admin panel explains why.

Important

There is a second screen called Social Links in the panel, under Admin, then Settings. It does nothing on your website. Fill it in and no icon appears anywhere.

Your profiles go here, under Content. If you have already typed them into that other screen, type them again here.

Where the links show up

In the footer of every page. They sit in a small box near the bottom of your website, under the words you put in Heading.

The middle box is this entry. The icons come from the platform you pick.

In a Social Links block. The same profiles can also show partway down a page, bigger. It is the same one list, so you only ever type a profile once. Pages shows how a block is added.

The two boxes at the top

Title is a label for the panel only. Visitors never see it. Leave it as it is.

Heading is the words above the icons, such as “Follow us”.

Adding a profile

One row is one profile.

1. Add Item. Adds an empty row at the bottom of the list.

2. Platform. Click the box and pick one: Facebook, Instagram, Google Business Profile, Yelp, Nextdoor, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Pinterest, Threads, WhatsApp or GitHub. Your choice sets the icon. There is nothing to pick or upload.

3. Handle or full URL. Where the icon sends people.

Link label is the last box in the row. It prints words next to the icon, such as “Read our reviews”. Leave it empty and the icon stands on its own, which is what most sites want.

The six dots on the left of a row move it up or down. The red trash icon on the right takes it out.

Tip

Open the profile in your browser, click the address bar, and copy the whole address. Paste that into Handle or full URL. It works for every platform, and it never guesses wrong.

When an icon does not show up

Important

A row that cannot make a working link is dropped, and nothing tells you. The icon simply never turns up in the footer.

The usual cause is a short handle where the whole web address was needed. Google Business Profile always needs the whole address. On the other platforms a short handle usually works, and the whole address always does.

Publish, then look at the footer of your live website and count the icons. If one is missing, open that row and paste the whole address in.

Changing or removing a profile

To change one, open the entry, type over what is in the boxes, and click Publish.

Warning

Removing a row takes that icon off every page of your website as soon as you publish.

To remove one, click the red trash icon on the right of its row, then click Publish.

Publishing a change

Nothing you type here reaches your website until you click Publish. Until then the old icons stay up. See Saving and publishing.