4.0.9 Social Links

[Paul]

BB 4.0.9 shows icons for all social media links regardless of how many you have details entered for – in my case FB & Twitter. The remaining icons previously didn’t display if addresses hadn’t been added.

[James]

I’m experiencing this as well. Thanks for posting, Paul.

[Alyssa]

@style960 @jgwolfensberger I updated straight to version 4.1.0 and I do not experience this issue. Please let me know if you still have it after upgrading. If so, please let me know which SM links you are using.

[James]

Hi TJ,

I just updated the theme to 4.1.0, made certain I flushed browser cache repeatedly and have no caching turned on for the site… but I still have all the social icons including those that I do not have a URL for. I could settle for hiding them via CSS, either individually or entirely actually.

James

[James]

Oops… I’m using FB, Twitter, Pinterest, and email with URLs. The others I don’t need.

[Paul]

Yeah same for me still also.

A quick note as well – from the 4 themes I have installed – BB + BB Child, Super Mobile + SM Child, only the original BB theme prompts for an automatic update. Is this expected behaviour?

[Alyssa]

@style960 @jgwolfensberger my only suggestion is to null out or empty the links to the media sites. A space will make the icon show up so make sure there are none in the field and save the results. Paul, I see you put your own site in the extra links, remove this and they should disappear on their own. Also make sure you don’t have a custom footer.php file, this could also pose an issue. All else fails you can remove the icons directly from the footer.php file.

[Paul]

@tjchester I have no white spaces, I’ve only added these two addresses in the FB & Twitter fields in Customizer:

https://facebook.com/everygoalmatters
https://twitter.com/egmatters

I don’t have a custom footer.php file. Looks like a theme issue, I didn’t have this problem prior to 4.0.9

[James]

My experience is the same as Paul’s – no spaces entered into Social Link fields and the icons/links still appear in the footer.

I tried removing my custom footer.php, but the problem still exists. Meanwhile, the custom footer.php is the correct method for modifying the “Designed by BuddyBoss” footer item, I believe. So even if this did work, without the footer.php, we would need a method to remove the BuddyBoss reference so that theme updates don’t undo it. If I’m understanding correctly 🙂

[James]

I’m using this CSS to hide the social icons I’m not using, although I don’t know if this is a technically “correct” method. For some reason I had to adjust the margin on the Pinterest icon to keep the icons spaced evenly. I also found that the “!important” tag was necessary.

.link-linkedin, .link-googleplus, .link-youtube, .link-instagram {
  display: none !important;
}

.link-pinterest {
  margin-left: -10px !important;
}

[Paul]

Seems like the only option at the moment, thanks.

[James]

Paul, by the way… I must have had a caching issue and I was wrong about the one icon needing a margin setting. You’ll likely find that you don’t need it.

[sgaske]

As of version 4.2, this is still an issue. Tried all of the above except the CSS modification. In the Customizer, it all seems to work fine, but as soon as I save and leave the customizer it reverts back to showing all the icons. Any new suggestions/fixes for this?

[Alyssa]

@sgaske please make sure you update the footer.php file in your child theme with the most current version from the parent theme.

[Paul]

@tjchester Done, looks fine in Customizer, still show all icons front-end. Sorry, not fixed.