AtticThemes vs Links With Icons Widget

AtticThemes Social Icons provides you with a unique and user friendly UI to build sets of social icons that can be used in any shortcode enabled area like post or page contents. There is no restriction on the number of sets you can have, nor the number of icons you may add to a single set. Each icon can have its separate link, making it possible to use the same icon for unlimited number of users. How To Use The Plugin It is very straightforward, just click the + icon in a “Icon Set” box (the gray box); this will automatically create an “Icon Set” shortcode that can be used in any shortcode enabled area, like pages and posts for example. Each time a new set is created an empty one will appear, so more sets can be built if needed. To remove icons just drag & drop icons from within the set into the trash box. If a set has its icons removed, it will be deleted. Every newly created set has its unique ID but it may be changed to any other ID that does not contain special characters or spaces. In order to change a set ID, just double click on the generated shortcode next to the “size selector”. Setting a custom ID is recommended, this will prevent issues with removed sets and unused shortcodes. If a set is removed, but the shortcode is still in use, the set will be rendered empty. By having the custom set ID in the shortcode you may restore it anythime without going though all the places the shortcode was used, in order to change it to a new one. None of the icons have their links set when they are used to create new sets. These icons are marked with an * (asterisk) to indicate the lack of a link. To set a link, just double click on the icon and type in or past a link in the input box of the popup window. Click “Done” or hit ENTER on your keyboard, to save the changes. The above information is also included in the Help tab of the plugin admin screen.

Links With Icons Widget adds a new custom widget which displays links with icons alongside. The links are dynamically added to each widget in the widget admin. This plugin does not use the links manager and does not create any custom post type to store the links. All data is self contained in each widget as widget option data. Images are added and managed using the media library and uploader. Usage: In the WordPress admin, go to Appearance…Widgets Drag the “Links With Icons” widget to a sidebar Select the number of links the widget will display and save the widget. The widget will reload with the proper number of fields for the number of links needed. Fill out the data (URL, Title and Image) and save the widget. Viola! The widget now appears with your pretty icons. Important Notes: The widget doesn’t care about icon / image size. You should probably keep it consistent (and small) so it will be pretty. If you reduce the number of links in a widget after it has been populated with data, the excess links data will be deleted forever. The default CSS class for the container UL is links-with-icons-widget Each link li has a class of link-with-icon You can style and override the defaults in your own custom css, like: .links-with-icons { /* custom styles / } .link-with-icon a { / custom styles / } .link-with-icon img { / custom styles */ } etc… Fork away: https://github.com/ethanpil/wp-links-with-icons-widget This WordPress plugin is brought to you by Los Angeles Web Design Future Plans: Display the size of selected image in the widget under the preview Choose icon position for each link (left (default) or right side)