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Author Box + Author-specific Social Media Icons without Plug-In ?
1 reply · Started by Johan on March 27, 2020
Hi,
I have added the code and .css to display an author box below the content of all posts. Works fine ! I'm using your lightweight social media icons plugin for the company site generic links to social media. Works fine !
How can I add social media icons that would be author specific to the author box ? Perhaps misusing some of the available profile fields ?
Thanks,
Johan
Hi there,
few options - easiest of which is to use a plugin for the author box that provides social icons eg.
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-author-box/
Or you could enable HTML in the author description using a plugin like so:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-html-author-bio-by-ahmad-awais/
Then you could add HTML to the description and include your own icon images and links.
The more complicated method would be to register your own user meta fields - but that would require custom development
