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Social Media support for Plone

Tutorials

  • Tutorials
    • Add social links to a site

How-to guides

  • How-to guides
    • How to install the backend
    • How to install the frontend
    • How to upgrade an existing site
    • How to set the site's links
    • How to give a section its own links
    • How to add links to a content type
    • How to add a social link from Python
    • How to add a Follow Us block
    • How to show the links in the footer
    • How to add or change a network
    • How to style the icons
    • How to troubleshoot

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    • Settings that live on content
    • Links and networks

Reference

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    • Behaviors
    • Catalog metadata
    • Endpoints and expansions
    • Python helpers
    • GenericSetup profiles
    • Volto add-on
    • Compatibility

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How to set the site's links

Contents

  • Open the settings
  • Add a link
  • Reorder the links
  • Change a link
  • Remove a link
  • Set the sharing settings
  • Save

How to set the site's links#

This guide shows you how to change a site's social links and its sharing settings.

You need both packages installed, and permission to edit the site root.

Open the settings#

  1. Log in, go to the site root, and select Edit in the toolbar.

  2. In the sidebar, open the Social Media section.

The section holds three fields: Share social data, Facebook App ID, and Profiles.

Add a link#

  1. Select Add Link, beside the Profiles label.

  2. In Network, pick the network.

  3. In Title, name the link, or leave it empty to use the network's name. The title shows when the pointer rests on the icon, and is what a screen reader announces.

  4. In Target, type the profile's address, and press Enter. To link to a page of the site instead, browse to it.

  5. Select Save in the dialog.

Network and Target are required. The table shows each link by its network's icon and its title.

Reorder the links#

Drag a row by its handle. The first row is the first icon.

Change a link#

Select Edit on its row, change the fields, and select Save in the dialog.

Remove a link#

Select Delete on its row, and confirm with Delete.

Set the sharing settings#

Share social data

Switch it off to leave out the fb:app_id, og:article:publisher, and twitter:site tags. The other head tags are not affected.

Facebook App ID

The value of the fb:app_id tag.

The usernames in twitter:site and og:article:publisher come from the X and Facebook links. They need a plain profile address, as Computed usernames lists.

Save#

Select Save in the toolbar.

Nothing is stored until you do. While the form is open, the footer already shows your changes; Cancel discards them.

See also

  • How to give a section its own links, for a section with links of its own.

  • Endpoints and expansions, to change the same fields without the edit form.

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Contents
  • Open the settings
  • Add a link
  • Reorder the links
  • Change a link
  • Remove a link
  • Set the sharing settings
  • Save

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