How to Show Social Media Icons in Joomla

How to Show Your Social Icons in Joomla

Almost every website builder wants to make it easy for visitors to find them on social media. Shack Icons Pro lets you easily add all the popular social networks to your site.

If you want a great-looking set of social icons on your site, then try the Shack Icons Pro module. It lets you easily add all the popular social networks to your site.

Shack Icons Pro lets you easily add all the popular social networks to your site from Delicious and Digg to YouTube and Yelp.

All you have to do is add the username of the site you want to add and save. Shack Icons Pro will automatically generate nice-looking icons with the correct URL to your profile.

Follow the steps below to get social icons on your site:

  1. Download the Shack Icons Pro extension from Joomlashack (it is a Pro extension)
  2. In your Joomla site, go to Extensions > Install.
  3. Choose the Shack Icons Pro extension that you just downloaded.
  4. Click on the "Upload & Install" button and, after a short time, the extension will be installed and an installation message will be shown. Enter your Joomlashack license key.

Easy Social Icons successfully installed

The Shack Icons Pro extension is a Joomla module.

Go to Extensions > Modules, and you should see that a Shack Icons Pro module has been automatically created. If you don't see it, click "New" and add a new version of the Shack Icons Pro module.

Easy Social Icons Module in the Joomla administrator

Now you can edit the module and add your social links. The current version of Shack Icons Pro supports the following social networks:

  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • Dribbble
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Foursquare
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Lastfm
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Stumbleupon
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • Vine
  • YouTube
  • Yelp

After installing the module, all you have to do to enable a social icon is to add your username to the configuration:

social icons usernames

Shack Icons Pro will automatically detect the values you entered and it will generate the correct URLs.

Here's how those icons will appear on the front of your site:

social icons in joomla

Easy Social Icons comes with some beautiful icon variations that you can choose from:

easy social icons demo samples2

About the author

Steve is the CEO of Joomlashack. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Sarasota in the USA. Steve has been involved with Joomla since 2006.