Social Links
Display a list of links to your social accounts with beautiful icons and followers’ counts in pre-defined theme locations, sidebar widget or post content via a shortcode. Add social links for post authors with help of the new user contact fields.
You need to install and activate the free plugin Powerkit to make this feature work.
If you want to setup this feature, go to
Settings → Social Links:
- Enable the social accounts that you would like to display in the list of social links.
- For every added social link a new tab will appear.
- Open every tab and add your Username / User ID or User Slug. In most cases it’s the last part of the URL to your social account. For example for https://facebook.com/themesart, it will be simply themesart.
- Add your social links in the pre-defined locations, your sidebar with a widget or page content with a shortcode.
Widgets
To add a widget with your social links to your sidebar, navigate to Appearance → Widgets and drag the “Social Links” widgets to the target widget area.
Shortcodes
You may display social links inside your post content by adding a shortcode to the WordPress editor:
[powerkit_social_links labels="true" titles="true" counts="true" template="default" scheme="default"]
Author Social Links
To add links to your social accounts for your user, please navigate to the WordPress dashboard to Users → Your Profile.
Supported Links
The following social networks are supported: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google Plus, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Spotify, Dribbble, Behance, GitHub, VK, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Bloglovin, RSS.
Share Buttons
Display share buttons in theme-predefined or standard locations. Select from various social networks and add per-button and the total share counts with just a few clicks.
You need to install and activate the free plugin Powerkit to make this feature work.
If you want to setup this feature, go to
Settings → Share Buttons:
- Select share button location from the tabs on top of the settings page. If there’re no theme pre-defined locations, only one location will appear: After Post Content.
- Enable the share buttons that you would like to display in the selected location.
- Configure their parameters: order, total share count, display counts, count location, layout and color scheme.
- Save and check your posts to make sure that share buttons appear correctly.
Social Shortcodes
You may display social links inside your post content by adding a shortcode to the WordPress editor:
[powerkit_share_buttons accounts="facebook, twitter, pinterest" total="true" icons="true" titles="false" labels="true" counts="true" count_location="inside" mode="smart" layout="default" scheme="default""]
Pinterest Share Cover
If you want Pinterest to pull in a specific image as a post cover, add the class powerkit-pinterest-cover to your image.
Supported Links
The following social networks are supported: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Mail, Google Plus, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pocket, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Viber, VK, Telegram, Line, Reddit.
08. Social Settings
Social Links
Display a list of links to your social accounts with beautiful icons and followers’ counts in pre-defined theme locations, sidebar widget or post content via a shortcode. Add social links for post authors with help of the new user contact fields.
If you want to setup this feature, go to Settings → Social Links:
Widgets
To add a widget with your social links to your sidebar, navigate to Appearance → Widgets and drag the “Social Links” widgets to the target widget area.
Shortcodes
You may display social links inside your post content by adding a shortcode to the WordPress editor:
Author Social Links
To add links to your social accounts for your user, please navigate to the WordPress dashboard to Users → Your Profile.
Supported Links
The following social networks are supported: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google Plus, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Spotify, Dribbble, Behance, GitHub, VK, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Bloglovin, RSS.
Share Buttons
Display share buttons in theme-predefined or standard locations. Select from various social networks and add per-button and the total share counts with just a few clicks.
If you want to setup this feature, go to Settings → Share Buttons:
Social Shortcodes
You may display social links inside your post content by adding a shortcode to the WordPress editor:
Pinterest Share Cover
If you want Pinterest to pull in a specific image as a post cover, add the class powerkit-pinterest-cover to your image.
Supported Links
The following social networks are supported: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Mail, Google Plus, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pocket, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Viber, VK, Telegram, Line, Reddit.