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 Joomla site.
If you want a great-looking set of social icons on your site, try the Shack Icons Pro module. It lets you easily add stylish icons of all the popular social networks, from Delicious and Digg to YouTube and Yelp.
All you have to do is add the username of the social network you want and save. The Shack Icons Pro module will automatically generate nice-looking icons with the correct URL to your social profile.
Follow the steps below to get social icons on your Joomla site.
- Download the Shack Icons Pro extension from Joomlashack (it is a Pro extension).
- In your Joomla site, go to "System" > "Install" > "Extensions".
- Go to the "Upload Package File" tab.
- Click the green "Or browse for file" button:
Choose the Shack Icons Pro extension installation ZIP file you downloaded and click on it twice.
After a short time, the extension will be installed and an installation message will be shown:
The Shack Icons Pro extension is a Joomla module.
Go to the "Modules: Site" screen to 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:
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
- Discord
- Dribbble
- Flickr
- Foursquare
- Lastfm
- Mailchimp
- Meetup
- Stumbleupon
- Tumblr
- X / Twitter
- Vimeo
- YouTube
- YouTube Channel
- Yelp
After installing the module, all you have to do to enable a social icon is to add your username to the configuration:
Shack Icons Pro will automatically detect the values you entered, and it will generate the correct URLs.
It comes with five beautiful icon style variations that you can choose from:
Here is how the module looks when set to the Elegant variation:
And here is the Blacksquare style:
Circular:
Flat:
Whitesquare:
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