Can I have a LinkedIn link in header?

Glad you’re liking Singl! LinkedIn isn’t one of the social networks supported in Singl, and I don’t see any workarounds suitable for WordPress.com users, even with Custom CSS. (On a self-hosted site you would be able to make changes through a child theme.)

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Hello Kathryn,

I agree with Michelle, Singl is a very good theme, clean and beautiful. I’m a user of self-hosted wordpress and would like to make some adaptations to this theme. I’m already using a child theme of singl and, like Michelle, today, I just want to insert other social links, specifically LinkedIn and Academia.

I’m actually decrypting the header.php template, but I don’t know if the functions of social links are developped in other files and folders.

Do you know how this could be done ?

Regards,

G.

Most code editors – like TextWrangler, or Sublime Text – have something called “multi-file search” built in. This is very handy for tracking down these sorts of things. ??

I ran a multi-file search on the Singl folder for the word “twitter” and found that in addition to header.php, these files contain pieces of code relevant to the social links:

inc/customizer.php
inc/extras.php
css/font-awesome.css

Adding new options for other social-media services in the Customizer isn’t a simple tweak in a child theme, since the related functions aren’t “pluggable” – meaning they can’t be easily overridden in a child theme’s functions.php file.

Instead, a simpler option might be to code your social media links directly in the child theme’s header.php, assuming they won’t need to change frequently.

Thank you very much for your answer.

You’re right. I will maybe let the customizer for later, when I will have the time to increase my wordpress knowledge :)! )

I made a first attempt to insert a piece of code into the header.php, but I made a syntax error somewhere…

This is what I inserted.

In line 21 :

$linkedin_link = get_theme_mod ( 'singl_linkedin_link' );

In line 33:

|| '' != $linkedin_link

In line 156:

<?php if ( '' != $linkedin_link ) : ?>
<li class="linkedin-link">
<a href="fr.linkedin.com/my_profile">LinkedIn</a>
</li>

What could be wrong here?

Since you’re hard-coding in your LinkedIn profile link, you don’t need to also include it as a variable, right?