This component includes a theme setting that allows you to add as many links as you want, determine their icons, and decide which devices they show up on!
Title is… well…the title you want the link to have.
URL is where you want the user to go when they click. Include protocol like https://
Alternatively, as @dnsmichi pointed out, you can also use relative links like /c/staff
If the icon you want to use does not show up, then add it to the svg_icons setting in the component. if you add new icons, they need to be prefixed with FontAwesome 5 prefixes like fab, far and fas.
View can have one of three values:
vdo:
Desktop only
vdm:
Mobile and desktop
vmo:
Mobile only
Target can be:
self
Opens link in the same tab
blank
Open link in a new tab
Then add the component to your theme as a theme component and you’re all set!
I’m having a similar issue as a few people mentioned above where the icon is not showing, but I can still click the button. I made the edit to the icon setting so that it says (for instance) “fab-facebook-f” rather than just “facebook-f”. For Twitter and my other website, I have no issues, but for Facebook and LinkedIn, it’s still not working.
I figured out Facebook, but still can’t get LinkedIn. Also, is there any way to make a custom icon? Could I upload my company’s logo and use it as an icon?
Ah this resolved it, indeed. Yep - super confusing. Rename would rock!
EDIT: Recent update also seemed to ninja change discord’s class name to include fab- in between it (eg, if you’re wanting to change the icons color; which @OP would make a great native feat - was a bit hard to catch).
For Linkedin you can use fab-linkedin as the icon name in this setting
but since that icon is not included in the default set of icons that Discourse uses, you will also need to add it to the other setting in the component.
Sure, there’s a section in this topic about adding custom icons.
Once you have that setup, you’ll be able to use any custom icons you add in this theme component. Please have a look there and let me know if you run into any issues.
I’ve made that change along with a couple of other implementation improvements here
The new update adds unique prefixed classes to each link based on the title you use. So, for example if you use
Thank you for your help. I tried using “fab-linkedin” in both the “Header Links” and “Svg Icons” categories. As seen in the picture, it is still not working for whatever reason.
The grey circle is where the LinkedIn logo would be. Any other ideas how to fix it?
Since you are a customer, I went in and had a look at your site and fixed the issue there for you. I updated the theme component and set the correct settings for the icons, they should all work now.
One more question/ request; I initially had these links opening in a separate tab, but now they are opening in the same tab. The setting is already set to “blank”, how else can I change this?
I can get some version 4.7.0 icons from Font Awesome Icons to work just by typing a name (e.g. car) in the correct part of “Header links”. Some icons don’t show (e.g. fa-comments-o). Some don’t need me to use “Svg icons” (e.g. home) and some do (e.g. car).
None of the version 5 icons which I’ve tried from Font Awesome have worked. I’ve put the fa- name into “Header links” and “Svg icons” to no effect. The fab-facebook (etc) icons which were there by default do work though.
many thanks for this @Johani . works like a charm and gives me an “aesthetical” solution for linking “back to the site” (in my case)
i did however, encounter an issue since i am also using the Left side hamburger menu on mobile component which ends up breaking everything on that part of the .d-header
