helpfulrobot / sajansharmanz-silverstripe-social-links

Add social media icons that link back to your own social media pages

Silverstripe Social Links

Description

This module adds social media icons to your website. A user is able to use the CMS Admin section to add a URL to each icon to link it back to their own social media page

Author

This module was created by Creative Gorillas (Sajan Sharma)

Installation

Manual Installation:

• Download Zip File
• Extract Zip File
• Locate folder inside Zip File
• Rename folder to "social-links" - without quotations
• Place this site-notice folder into your projects root directory
• Run http://yoursiteurl/dev/build?flush=1

Composer Installtion:

===================================================================== composer require sajansharmanz/silverstripe-social-links

• Run http://yoursiteurl/dev/build?flush=1

Usage

Once successfully installed we are ready to implement the Social Media Icons to the website

Add Site Media Icons to Page:

• Login to the Silverstripe Admin Interface
• Select "Settings" on the left menu
• Select the Social tab
• Add the URLs you require
• Click Save (IMPORTANT)

Adding Social Icons to Template:

• Once you decide where you would like to display the social media icons, simply add the following line of code there to display the icons

<% include SocialLinks %>

License

This module is available under the BSD 3-clause

Additional Information

The icons are from the Font-Awesome package.

The icons have been given styles already using their default colours, however, you can edit these as you like

Good Luck and Enjoy!