{"id":6290,"date":"2017-09-20T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T17:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med-webguide.sites.unc.edu\/?page_id=6290"},"modified":"2025-02-04T15:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:32:39","slug":"social-media-menu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/webguide\/userguide\/widgets-explained\/footers\/social-media-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"
Learn how to add a social media menu to your site’s footer. To do this, you will first need to create a menu of links (to all your social media sites) then add it to your site’s footer.<\/p>\n
In the dashboard, go to Appearance \u00bb Menus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Create a new menu<\/strong>, and title it something like “Social Media.”<\/p>\n Next, expand the Custom Links<\/strong> field and add a link and title for one of your social media site. Click the Add to Menu<\/strong> button. The menu item will show up under “Menu Structure.”<\/span><\/p>\n In the CSS Classes<\/strong> field, add one of the classes listed below:<\/p>\n If you do not see the “Custom CSS” field in the menu item, scroll to the top of the page, in the upper right-hand corner, click on the\u00a0 Screen Options<\/strong> tab. Add a check to the “CSS Classes” box.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Once you have created your social media menu, go to Appearance >> Widgets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Select the Navigation Menu<\/strong> under Available Widgets<\/strong>, and drag it to the Footer<\/strong> widget area. In the Navigation menu, select your social media menu from the list. Click save<\/strong>. <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Learn how to add a social media menu to your site’s footer. To do this, you will first need to create a menu of links (to all your social media sites) then add it to your site’s footer. Create the Menu In the dashboard, go to Appearance \u00bb Menus. Create a new menu, and title … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56553,"featured_media":0,"parent":8431,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6290","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/webguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/webguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/webguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/webguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/webguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/webguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13087,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/webguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6290\/revisions\/13087"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/webguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/webguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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