Social Media Icons Author Box

Now I’ve created a custom author box for each author at the bottom of the article. Actually it would be great to add website data and social media icons for their custom social media accounts. Any idea how I do this best?

You'll need to create custom fields that will hold values for author's website data and social media links.

You can then fetch this values the GB Headline Block's dynamic value > Author meta.

Or you can create a shortcode for each of them and place it on your content template using the shortcode block.

Hey Elvin

this works great, but when i just want add some social media icons with the button block, it doesn`t work. Any Idea?

Best Kevin

but when i just want add some social media icons with the button block, it doesn`t work.

What exactly doesn't work?

Can you check the documentation first?
https://docs.generateblocks.com/article/buttons-overview/#icon

This video might help as well:
https://youtu.be/HMhUo91RjsE

I dont see any social media button. When i use the same meta data with the headline block i see the url as text but not with the button block for just a twitter icon or others

Hmm haven't heard that issue before.

Are you sure you don't see this?
https://www.screencast.com/t/JIiIPbFJ4r

This is how it looks

https://www.screencast.com/t/fqN7fq8D

Same meta but with headline block
https://www.screencast.com/t/qMZcgZvQ are working

Sorry, I should've explained further.

ACF will only fetch the link values but won't attach it as an href to an icon's <a> tag.

You'll have to use GenerateBlock's Button block and use "dynamic link type" instead of "dynamic text type" as shown here:
https://share.getcloudapp.com/8Lubl49E

cool thank you. Whats the best solution for e-mail? ACF with Mail doesn`t work.

okey i fix it: Text and then mailto:

Thank you

Glad you figured the rest out. No problem. :)