Simple Social Icons

About Simple Social Icons

Simple Social Icons is a plugin that allows you to display icons on your website that link to your social media profiles. You can customize the color, size, and alignment of the icons directly from the widget form. Please note that a feature called simple_social_default_glyphs has been removed from the plugin.

Frequently asked questions

What is Simple Social Icons?

Simple Social Icons is an easy to use, customizable way to display icons that link visitors to your various social profiles.

What can I do with Simple Social Icons?

With Simple Social Icons, you can easily choose which profiles to link to, customize the color and size of your icons, as well as align them to the left, center, or right, all from the widget form.

Is there a settings page for Simple Social Icons?

No, there is no settings page necessary for Simple Social Icons. All customization can be done directly from the widget form.

Is the simple_social_default_glyphs filter still available?

No, the simple_social_default_glyphs filter has been deprecated from this plugin.

Changelog

3.2.5

Added Diaspora icon

3.2.4

Improve Bluesky icon alignment

3.2.3

Added Bluesky icon

3.2.2

Added Etsy, Substack and Telegram icons

3.2.1

Fixed issue with new icons

3.2

Added Threads and Mastodon icons
Updated X / Twitter icon

3.1.2

Changed ownership from StudioPress to OsomPress. You can read more details about it in https://osompress.com/4-new-plugins-join-osompress-family/.

3.1.1

Added Amazon, Goodreads, Meetup, Reddit, TikTok, Tripadvisor, and WhatsApp icons
Updated GitHub icon
Removed Google+ and StumbleUpon icons

3.1.0

Add escaping to output
Remove the svgxuse.js script

3.0.2

Fixed issue where icons can fail if there is a space anywhere in its URL.

3.0.1

Remove Grunt
Fix AMP compatibility

3.0.0

Obfuscate email address from spambots
Prevent email links to open in new window if option selected
Fix saving email by removing http:// from it
Allow icons to accept transparent color on border and background
Fix phone by removing http:// from it
Updated Medium logo
Added a proper uninstall hook
Added a filter to disable the CSS
Added filter to update the HTML markup

2.0.1

Fixed typo in Snapchat icon markup
Made CSS selectors more specific
Added classes to each icon
Added plugin version to enqueued CSS
Updated Google + icon

2.0.0

Added Behance, Medium, Periscope, Phone, Snapchat, and Xing icons
Switched to svg, rather than icon font

1.0.14

Accessibility improvements: change icon color on focus as well as on hover, add text description for assistive technologies

1.0.13

Add textdomain loader

1.0.12

Prevent ModSecurity blocking fonts from loading

1.0.11

Update enqueue version for stylesheet, for cache busting

1.0.10

Update textdomain, generate POT

1.0.9

PHP7 compatibility

1.0.8

Added border options

1.0.7

Added Bloglovin icon

1.0.6

Added filters

1.0.5

Updated LICENSE.txt file to include social extension

1.0.4

Updated version in enqueue script function

1.0.3

Added Tumblr icon

1.0.2

More specific in the CSS to avoid conflicts

1.0.1

Made color and background color more specific in the CSS to avoid conflicts

1.0.0

Switched to icon fonts, rather than images

0.9.5

Added Instagram icon

0.9.4

Added YouTube icon
Added bottom margin to icons

0.9.3

Fixed CSS conflict in some themes

0.9.2

Added new profile options
Changed default border radius to 3px

0.9.1

Fixed some styling issues

0.9.0

Initial Beta Release