# Social links/icons

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-links-icons/258786
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [March 20, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-links-icons/258786 "2023-03-20T19:37:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![papyrophilia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/papyrophilia/32/161518_2.png) [@papyrophilia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/papyrophilia)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-links-icons/258786/1 "2023-03-20T19:37:19Z")

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For the communities that have a social media presence, how/where do you post your social media links/icons? Is there a plugin I’m overlooking? Thanks!

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-links-icons/258786/2 "2023-03-20T19:39:36Z")

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Maybe that is something for you

> [@Clickable Social Icon Links on Profile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clickable-social-icon-links-on-profile/158136):
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> A Theme Component that includes social icons as clickable within User Profile & User Cards if you are using the [User Cards Directory Theme Component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-directory/144479/29) It’s 99% copied from the discussion & code samples provided by @LeoMcA included in this conversation on [Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-custom-user-field-to-external-website/41218) and in [Namati User Card Profile Theme](https://github.com/LeoMcA/namati-user-card-profile-theme), but thought it would be helpful to dig it out from the thread and make it slightly more general. Notes Any users that don’t include a value for an entry will…

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### Author: ![papyrophilia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/papyrophilia/32/161518_2.png) [@papyrophilia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/papyrophilia)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-links-icons/258786/3 "2023-03-23T01:56:02Z")

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Thanks @Moin! I should have been clearer that I mean the _community’s_ social media links–not an individual user’s…unless I’m missing something in that topic, which is quite possible.

I know that we can add links into About/FAQs, but is there any way to mount social icon links on the sidebar or in the footer? #featurerequest