How to Add Social Media Icons to Squarespace

Advantages of the brand-new icons widget

Display your social pages and drive additional subscribers.

Social widget’s installation tutorial in 2 quick phases

If you’re coming up against icons’ installation or placement difficulties, please, contact our help center at Elfsight Help without delay.

Video Guide

Authorize in your account and perform several simple operations to add the application to your web page. The entire display time is about 2 minutes.

Part 1: Generate the application

Compose the widget design and get the widget shortcode.

• Register at the platform

Create a profile at the resource or authorize in the service at our platform to continue the installation.

• Visit «Social Icons» plugin

In order to set up the icons go to Social Icons.

• Customize the icons

Customize the icons and their appearance style in the plugin’s editor.

• Discover the appropriate subscription

You need to choose the subscription plan in the table that you’re redirected to. Subscriptions range from free to universal. Check your personal resource’s popularity and press the “Select” link.

Part 2: add the application to the website

• Login to your Squarespace profile

Authorise and go to dashboard.

• Go to settings

Click the "Settings" link on the main page, and then go to "Advanced".

• Add the code to the site's header/footer.

Follow the "Code Injection" link in the left-hand menu.

• Insert the icons

Paste the Elfsight Apps plugin code.

• The icons are installed!

You've performed this task successfully.

Altering your application after setup

If you would like to customize the icons’ style after the app has been built in to a Squarespace web page, visit your individual page at Elfsight Apps and create the new features. After you’ve confirmed these changes, the settings will be installed to your resource accordingly.

Pros of implementing the Elfsight Social Icons

The essential advantages of the icons are the following:

• 55+ high-quality social networks and media sites icons in one platform (Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Email, Google+, etc.);
• You will discover 1 500+ combinations of visual improvements that include thoroughly adjustable dimensions, color palette, 6 awesome styles and 5 clean animations – all you expect to make the app suit your page entirely;
• From now on, you don’t have to cut the icons in Photoshop and carry out the edits to your web page’s code;
• The decrease in the weight of your site, which influences the site’s loading speed in a positive way.

Choose your special design and stay online with your visitors in any place.

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Elfsight Apps is a cloud service that includes widgets for all Content management systems or site builders. Find out our apps’ free versions to add to your pages’ performance starting right now!