[Resolved] Dispatch how to set up social media

[Elaine]

I’m using Dispatch and I see there is a menu set up under “Appearance” “Menus” that has social media links. It’s called Social-Tasty, but I don’t actually see it on my site or how to get it to appear. Also, there are a couple social media icons on the home page in the top right corner ( the Facebook “f” and twitter) but I don’t know where/how to set the links for them or how to add more social media icons. Help would be great, thanks!

[Tom]

Hi there,

It sounds like that menu was imported during the import process for the “Tasty” site – you can likely just delete it.

Dispatch adds its social icons in the Header widget which you can find in “Appearance > Widgets”.

Let me know if you need more info 🙂

[Elaine]

Nevermind! I figured it out! It’s in the widget menu.

[Tom]

Glad you got it sorted 🙂

[Christa]

Hi I’m using the Tasty theme and I imported it with the default settings. However I don’t see the social media icons next to the menu items or in the footer. I didn’t see anything under Widgets either.

Thanks!

[David]

Hi there,

does your site have any content? If not can you try re-installing the Site. Let us know.

[Christa]

Hi yes it does have content. This is what I see in the CSS

.main-navigation:not(.toggled) li.menu-social > a,
.main-navigation:not(.toggled) li.search-item > a{
padding: 0 10px;
}

Should the Social menu be under “Appearance>Menu”?

http://p6q.5d4.myftpupload.com/

[David]

The site uses a plugin to add the icons. Looks like that plugin was missed off when importing. First can you check your Plugins to see if there is a Menu Icons plugin there?

[Christa]

Hi I only have:

GP Premium
Happy Forms
Sucuri Security

Can I install the plugin separately?

Thanks!

[David]

Its this plugin and yes you can install that separately:

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/menu-icons/

[Christa]

Thank you I installed it. Do you know what the default settings should be? Nothing appeared in my menu and I don’t see anywhere where I can add links to my social media pages. I tried rolling back to the previous version of the plugin as well but nothing appeared

[Tom]

With that plugin you need to add menu items in “Appearance > Menus”.

You should see an icon option once you add a custom link: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/using-the-wordpress-menu-builder/#custom-link

[Christa]

Hi thank you now I understand. How do I get only the social media icons to display in the footer bar widget, like in the demo? I’ve added the CSS class to the social media menu icons. Thanks!

[David]

Hi there,

the footer uses a Navigation Widget – so you just need to create a separate menu for your icons and choose that menu in the widget.

[Christa]

Okay got it – thanks!

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