Facebook Icon no longer displaying in Social Menu

  • Resolved fonziconnzi

    (@fonziconnzi)


    9 years, 3 months ago

    Since installing the latest updates of Make and WordPress, I have noticed that my Facebook icon in my page footer has vanished.

    https://donnareadtextiles.com/shop/

    The link is there and it is live, but the icon is not visible.

    I’ve tried using my in-browser developer tools to view and tinker with the footer CSS, to see what is causing the display issue.

    If I change the following code:

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

    to

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

    then the Facebook icon displays again.

    Please could you tell me where in the theme files I can make this modification myself, because currently it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

    I’d just like to know which theme file is responsible for assigning the fa-facebook-official <i> class, so that I can amend it to fa-facebook if possible.

    Many thanks.

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  • Thread Starter fonziconnzi

    (@fonziconnzi)

    p.s. I just managed to locate the inc/extras.php file where I was able to change the icon class to “fa-fw-facebook” – so the icon is now displaying, but it is now a different hover colour to the others!

    Is there a better workaround/fix to this entire problem as this feels like a very clumsy solution?

    Hi @fonziconnzi

    The reason this is happening is that you have a plugin installed called “Image Gallery” that is loading the Font Awesome icon font, which is overriding Make‘s version Font Awesome. Make is using the latest version of Font Awesome, but your plugin probably isn’t, so it doesn’t have the facebook-official icon.

    You could see if it’s possible to turn off Font Awesome in your plugin, or disable the plugin altogether. The solution you have come up with works, but it is only a temporary fix since it will change back to facebook-official the next time you update the theme. To make this change in a way that would persist between versions, you would need to install the child theme and write some custom PHP code.

    Thread Starter fonziconnzi

    (@fonziconnzi)

    Hi Corey,

    Thanks for taking the time to reply. I hadn’t been able to identify what was causing the conflict. Have ditched the plugin now.

    Am using a child theme and some custom PHP already – so was putting the modifications in here to prevent them being overwritten by future updates. Since I’ve now got rid of the problematic plugin, it shouldn’t continue to be an issue either way.

    Thanks again!

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