How do I add social icons to my main navigation?

I would like to have social links appear in the header of a template that only offers footer icons.

Step 1. Select an icon and find the icon code from here:

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/

Step 2. Add a Link to your navigation and make the Link Title the icon code.

As an EXAMPLE, paste in

<i class="fa-facebook"></i>

as your Link Title for that Facebook icon.

Then, add your social profile URL to the 'External' tab of the link settings.

Step 3. Add this exact code to your site's Home menu > Settings > Advanced > Code Injection > Header and Footer fields.

HEADER:

<!----Font.awesome--->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">

FOOTER:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">

Step 4. Your new social icon should appear via the link in your site's navigation menu.

Great solve here my man.

To all youz:

His/her text for social icon is off. Use this on your first text in the link section:

Also. If you want the social links to be a different color, add style=" " into the link section. It would look like this: \

thanks again.

This is great, is it possible to adjust the size of the icon? Mine has appeared rather tiny...

@markdekoning

To Make Larger Icons

To increase icon sizes relative to their container, use the fa-lg (33% increase), fa-2x, fa-3x, fa-4x, or fa-5x classes. (You will make this change in the Link Title)

fa-lg fa-2x fa-3x fa-4x fa-5x

If your icons are getting chopped off on top and bottom, make sure you have sufficient line-height.

Hi guys,

I was having problems with this, but then found that replacing the header code (found here https://fontawesome.com/get-started) works well:

<script defer src="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.10/js/all.js" integrity="sha384-slN8GvtUJGnv6ca26v8EzVaR9DC58QEwsIk9q1QXdCU8Yu8ck/tL/5szYlBbqmS+" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

You will also need to remove the footer code mentioned above.

On 5/9/2016 at 3:15 PM, crc2pdx said:

 

Hi,

For some reason this isn't working for me. I get a generic scrambled unknown icon in place of the social icons. I have used your exact HTML and header/footer code injections and this is what I see. Help?

TIA!

On 2/14/2020 at 1:43 AM, emalu said:

Hi,

For some reason this isn't working for me. I get a generic scrambled unknown icon in place of the social icons. I have used your exact HTML and header/footer code injections and this is what I see. Help?

TIA!

Try this guide: https://forum.squarespace.com/topic/157427-share-add-social-icons-to-navigation/