adding social media

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  gapse · Member · May 9, 2022 at 8:55 pm

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  help me get to the area where I can enter my social media icons

  WP.com: Unknown
  Jetpack: Yes
  Correct account: Yes

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-totoro · Staff · May 10, 2022 at 12:36 am

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  Hi there,

  You can add social icons into the footer of your site (there is not an option to show them in the header) by following the steps here: https://wordpress.com/support/menus/social-links-menu/

  Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any more questions.

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  kleyhalisson · Member · May 10, 2022 at 12:37 am

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  Hello @gapse. Your site is not hosted at WordPress.com, but instead is hosted elsewhere and uses WordPress.org opensource software. Since WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate entities, we can’t help much from here. This forum is for sites hosted at WordPress.com. You can see the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org here: https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/

  About the area of social media icons:
  – If you’re talking about social media icons to your readers can share a post, WordPress doesn’t have this feature built-in. You can use a plugin for it. Personally, I like to use Jetpack.
  – If you’re talking about widget areas, it’s usually controlled by the theme.
  You can refer to this forum to get help from the WordPress.org community: https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/

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  kleyhalisson · Member · May 10, 2022 at 12:40 am

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  staff-totoro, there you are. I didn’t see your answer while was typing mine. :)

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  staff-totoro · Staff · May 10, 2022 at 1:20 am

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  Howdy @kleyhalisson no worries. :)

  I should probably also clarify that although their site is self-hosted, they are using a theme (Balasana) that was designed by our WordPress.com theme team, and we do try and help with those when they come through our forums.

  Volunteers are not expected to know that distinction, so I wanted to let you know. Thanks for your help!