How to add custom icons for Social Icons widget?

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  viarachma · Member · Mar 4, 2020 at 5:08 pm

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  Hello!

  I have a Social Icons widget in the footer area of my blog and I want to include link to my Blogger and Fandom blogs. I guess since they’re not exactly social media their official icon isn’t listed and so I get ‘chain’ icon instead.

  But I’m wondering if it’s possible to add custom icons for them? So I and visitors can differentiate them.

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  supernovia · Staff · Mar 4, 2020 at 10:29 pm

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  Hi there,

  But I’m wondering if it’s possible to add custom icons for them? So I and visitors can differentiate them.

  Not for this widget, but you’d be welcome to use an HTML widget to set up whatever set of icons you’d like. If you’ll upload a set of images you like, we’ll send you some sample HTML that you can modify and add to a widget.

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  viarachma · Member · Mar 17, 2020 at 2:24 pm

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  I see… that can’t be helped. Is it fine to just follow the instructions here https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/social-media-icons-widget/#available-icons

  or do you have other recommendations to set up the custom icons?

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Mar 17, 2020 at 2:39 pm

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  If you don’t want to use the available icons, the workaround would be what @supernovia mentioned, setting those up via HTML widget or upgrading to plan Business and using a plugin.