how to activate Skype icon in the footer

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    dmitry piven
    Participant

    I managed to activate Facebook and other social network icons through theme options > footer. I put my Skype address in, but it does not work. What do I miss.
    Thank you

    #21563
    dmitry piven
    Participant

    The other question is how to add other networks, which are not included in the agency theme default list. In particular VKontakte & Odnoklassniki.
    Thank you

    #21567
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Dimitry,

    Good questions. For the URL for the Skype link, I believe they follow this format:

    
    skype:username?call
    

    There’s no need to put a http:// before the address above. Replace the username with your username and update your settings. If a user has Skype installed, then that should open up Skype and initiate a call. Here’s the page on Microsoft support about that: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn745878


    If you need to add in other services you can with a bit of editing. First you’ll need to find icons for the service you want to use. You’ll want to size the icons to be 32 pixels square. Once you’ve done that, here’s what to do:

    1. Go to the Media section in your WordPress dashboard and choose Add New. Upload the images for your new services. Once the upload is finished, click the edit links. Those will open up a new widow for each image. On the right hand side the file URL will be listed. You’ll need that in a moment.
    2. Go to the Appearance section in your WordPress dashboard and choose Edit.
    3. From the list of files on your right, choose footer.php.
    4. Right above this:
      
      <?php if ( of_get_option( 'rss' ) ) { ?>
      

      add this:


      (copy that code from the support site and not the notification email)

    5. Replace the http://link1.com with your VKontakte profile URL and the http://yoursite.com/link1.png with the URL to that icon you uploaded earlier.
    6. Repeat that for the next icon/network.
    7. Save your changes.

    That’s how you can add in a new icon. Let me know if you have any questions.

    Have a great week,
    Bill

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