009 STBS: How to Easily Add Social Icons to WordPress

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Have you ever been frustrated at trying to add social bookmarking icons to your WordPress blog?  Well, you are not alone, trust me.  I recently helped a friend of mine, Ted Nguyen build a WordPress website from scratch using a killer WooTheme.  Unfortunately, Ted is a real go getter and spent 5 hours trying to figure out how to go about adding some cool social media icons to the sidebar of his blog.

Well, because of this funny fiasco, I decided to create this video showing how to easily add social networking icons to the sidebar of your WordPress blog without having to know any code whatsoever.  All you need is a couple of icons (we used some from sixrevisions.com), and a little knowledge of how to leverage WordPress’ visual editor and widgets.

Here are the step-by-step instructions:

1. Essentially, you start off by uploading all of the icons that you want to use into your blog’s media library.
2. You insert the ones that you want to use into the visual editor used for posts and pages. *UPDATE*: Make sure that you select “Left” for alignment.
3. Modify the height and width you want using the visual editor’s resize capability.
4. Once you’ve done that, you click over to the HTML tab, and all of the HTML is there for the taking.
5. Copy all of that code and head on over to the widget area of your theme under the “Appearance” tab.
6. Bring up a text widget drop it into the area of the sidebar that you want to use.
7. Add some header text (or don’t).
8. Paste the code into the text widget.
9. Then you are done!

How’s that for an easy 9-step process.  I apologize for the lack of images, but the video explains it all in grueling detail.  Keep in mind that the mouse curse is a little off for some reason.

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