Social media links

 

User level: Site Owner; Site Administrator; Site Editor; Site Author

We recommend using the social media links widget if you want to promote your social media platforms. Free Font Awesome icons can be added to a page and linked to your chosen social media accounts.

The Ashmolean home page is an example of where this is used for "Follow us on social media".

 

Using the social media links widget

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For example, search on "Facebook":

screenshot font awesome available facebook icons
  • Note what the icon is called, e.g. facebook 

 

  • Select the Social media links widget from the drop-down list:
screenshot of add widget menu for social media links

 

  • Add the name of your preferred Font Awesome icon you noted previously
  • Add the URL to your chosen Facebook page
  • Add title of the link
screenshot adding font awesome social media link for facebook
  • Example of how the icon appears on a published page:
screenshot social media links widget published page using facebook icon
  • You can see it matches the icon in the Font Awesome search results shown in Step 1

 

  • Add further social media links, e.g. for X, Instagram, in the order you want them to display on the published page
  • Please note some Font Awesome icons may not display despite entering the correct details, e.g. bluesky
  • Example of published page:
screenshot social media links widget icons on published page