New Social Icons

[Aaron]

I have a basic understanding of how the theme pulls an .svg file to display member’s ‘social icons’ like Facebook and Instagram. I’m trying to add some more, like a ‘Website’ icon, so that people can display a link to their personal websites. How do I add my own custom icon to the spot? It currently displays as a blank grey circle because I don’t have a icon.

On that same note–the ‘Profile Social Links’ has an ‘Image’ option where I can load an image from the backend. Problem is, I can’t see what that image does. Where does it go? Is it displayed somewhere?

[Anonymous]

hi @aaronmcnany,

You can upload your icon from backend
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3JP4B8e-iV8Yl80a2p1SHhqV28/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3JP4B8e-iV8ajBKVGtqenc3MTQ/view?usp=drivesdk

or you can also use font awesome css to display them.
I have added some example to for Tumblr ,Google+, Vimeo.

#item-header #item-header-content a[title="Tumblr"] i::after {
  color: #a27443;
  content: "\f173";
  font-family: fontawesome;
}

#item-header #item-header-content a[title="Google+"] i::after {
  content: "\f0d5";
  font-family: fontawesome;
  color: #a27443;
}
#item-header #item-header-content a[title="Vimeo"] i::after {
  color: #a27443;
  content: "\f27d";
  font-family: fontawesome;
}
#item-header #item-header-content a[title="Blog"] i::after {
  content: "\f040 ";
  font-family: fontawesome;
   color: #a27443;
} 

Regards
Varun Dubey

[Aaron]

For some reason I wasn’t able to get the ‘backend’ upload to work. The image did upload, but it wasn’t displaying on the front end. What size are you using for your example? Is there a filetype I should use?

[Aaron]

I’ve attached screenshots so you can see that I’ve followed your advice. I’ve tried different sizes, and I’ve also tried .png, .tiff, and .jpg and none of it has displayed on the front end.

[Anve S.]

Hi @aaronmcnany,

This is working perfectly fine in our theme , you can check yourself in demo . Please PM the site details , will provide you the corresponding css for it .

Regards
Anve

[Anonymous]

Hi Hi @aaronmcnany,
At present your are using Boss 2.0.7, Please create a full backup and update version to current one Boss 2.1.6
It will fix your social icon issue.
Regards
Varun Dubey

[Aaron]

My Child-theme is 2.0.7, but my main theme is 2.1.6. How do I update my child theme? Thought I wasn’t supposed to.

[Aaron]

I’m frustrated because on February 4th you told me to move an entire folder into the child theme: https://www.buddyboss.com/support-forums/topic/add-friend-first-choice-by-default-on-cover-photo/

The reason was because YOU had a bug with your theme, so you gave me this workaround. Now, because of a Boss. theme bug, I’ve got to go out of my way to do a custom update on my child theme. Honestly, I think you guys should be the ones to fix it. I’ve tried to custom update some of the folders, but the file structure is slightly different and it’s messing up my site.

[Aaron]

Perhaps you can just pass me the location of that ‘social icons’ plugin so that I can edit the lines to match the new update?

[Anonymous]

Hi @aaronmcnany,
I have forwarded your details to our developers they will check your site shortly.
Regards
Varun Dubey

[Anonymous]

Hi @aaronmcnany
We have added fix inside your child theme, member-header.php file is updated.
Let me know if you still have any issues.
Regards
Varun Dubey

[Aaron]

@vapvarun, thank you, thank you, thank you! Works like a charm now:)