Problems with social media icons
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blaisingadventures
MemberHello,
I’m trying to get the Facebook icon to show up on my menu. I’ve connected my blog to my FB page via the settings>sharing>publicize feature and it works great.
However, I was told that the FB icon would automatically show up in the menu of my blog but it doesn’t. Do you know how to do this? I have tried disconnecting and reconnecting through Publicize several times and it still doesn’t work.Many thanks,
AliceThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
angelatcrist
MemberHi Alice,
Thanks for reaching out!
Just to confirm, did you follow all of these instructions:* First enable Publicize within Jetpack.
* Next, head over to the Theme Customizer by selecting Appearance → Customize.
* Finally, click Connect and select the appropriate social media accounts from the drop-downs to enable social link icons.
* Make sure to publish your changes before leaving the pageJust wanted to confirm this first.
I’m happy to help!Thanks,
AngelaHi Angela,
Thanks for your response. The process sounds different than what was advised to me earlier. Can you explain what Jetpack is? I went to Appearance>Customize>Connect to my FB page but the icon didn’t show up.
This is what I did previously:
Settings>Sharing>Connected to FB.Thanks for your help!
Alicekathrynwp
StaffFirst enable Publicize within Jetpack.
Hi Alice – I just wanted to clarify that Publicize is already active on all WordPress.com sites. You can ignore the reference to Jetpack as that’s a term that only applies to a self-hosted site – sorry for any confusion!
OK great – any thoughts on why the FB icon doesn’t show up?
I’m using the Gallery theme.Thanks,
Alicekathrynwp
StaffI wish I could tell you why the Facebook icon is not showing up in your menu! I had a look at your other thread and I also see that:
– you’ve already tried disconnecting and reconnecting your Facebook account, which is what usually fixes this issue
– your posts are correctly being publicized to your Facebook page
– testing your connection shows that it’s a valid and working connection, with no errors returned from FacebookDo you happen to have any of the other types of accounts supported by this feature, like a Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, or LinkedIn account? If you wouldn’t mind connecting one of them the same way you connected your Facebook account, it could be very helpful in narrowing down where the issue might be. Just let me know and we’ll take it from there. Thanks very much!
Helllo,
Just wanted to follow up on this – I have an Instagram account but not sure how to connect it to my blog…
I tried connecting my FB account to the blog again but the icon still doesn’t show up. Any ideas?Many thanks,
Alicekathrynwp
StaffHi Alice, thanks for letting me know about the Instagram account. That isn’t one of the services supported by the Publicize feature so unfortunately we can’t use it for testing purposes here.
I logged into your account to double-check that you had selected Facebook from the Customizer and it looks like you hadn’t – at least not after the last reconnection. I’ve reselected it from the menu so it now looks like this:
The problem now is that the icon is not displaying correctly on your site – and I think that’s a bug in the theme. In Chrome, for example, I see just a square where the icon should be:
I’m going to put in a bug report for this so the developers can have a look. (Angela, please be on the lookout!)
Thanks for your patience, Alice.
kathrynwp
StaffI think I’ve found the culprit and in the end it’s not a theme bug after all.
I commented out this part of your custom CSS and the Facebook icon now appears:
.menu li a { font-family: arial; }
Because the social-media icons are part of the top menu and use the Genericons icon font, changing the font family prevents the correct icons from appearing.
This other piece of CSS is also something you may want to remove, as it prevents your post format icons from being displayed correctly in some browsers:
.genericon-link:before { content: '\f475'; margin-left: -15px; }
This is what they look like currently in Firefox: https://cloudup.com/clkYky8jnvL
I hope this helps solve the mystery once and for all.
Hi Kathryn,
Thanks so much for your help. Glad you were able to identify the prob :)
Is there another font I can use in the menu other than what you had? Or change the letter spacing? I changed it back for now because it was very difficult to read…Also, it sounds like there’s no way to connect Instagram to this?
Sorry for all the questions. Thanks!
Ali
kathrynwp
StaffTry this instead of your current menu CSS:
#access .menu ul li a { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } #access .menu ul li.social-links a { font-family: Genericons; }
What this does is set the menu to Arial (with some fallback fonts as backups) and then resets the specific menu item for your social icon back to Genericons, which is the icon font the theme relies on.
It also looks like the Facebook option got deselected in the Customizer’s Connect panel again so I reselected it for you. If this happens again, could you please let me know exactly what actions you took before it got disconnected so we can see if there’s an issue in the Customizer that needs to be looked at.
Instagram isn’t an option built into the Publicize feature, which is designed to share WordPress posts with text-based social networks.
There is an Instagram widget you could try instead:
Awesome! This finally did the trick! I was able to add the FB icon and keep the font in my menu :) You’re been great and super patient, thanks for all your help!
I was also able to add my Instagram account using the widget tool and even added the little Instagram icon – but this could only be done on the bottom of the page and not in the menu next to the FB icon. Not ideal but at least it’s there :) Thanks again!angelatcrist
MemberHi Ali,
Just wanted to follow up.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.Thanks!
Angela
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