How to Add Social Media Icons on Shopify?

Social media is beneficial for promoting your business which can turn in to customers and sales so you must have at least a couple of social accounts. There are two ways to add social media icons to your site, the easy and the more complicated way.

Let’s start with the easy way first. All you have to do is go to the Social Media section of the App Store, there are several themes in the Theme Store that already have the social media icons (buttons) included in them. You can check if it has the buttons by going to Customize Theme page and seeing the Header, Sidebar, Homepage, or Footer menus.

Now on to the more advanced way, just follow the steps below:

Follow these steps to add a social media sharing button

1. Log in to your Shopify admin
2. Go to “Online Store” and then click on “Themes”
3. Open the “Asset” folder
4. If you scroll down you will see a link, “Add a New Asset“, click on this link
5. From the list of file icons choose the icon file you want to upload and click Upload Asset
6. The icon button will now be available and will work once you add the code in to it (to add code open the “theme.liquid” file)
7. The button will be shown in your theme according to the code you have pasted in the line
8. Click Save

If you are interested there are also a few apps in the Shopify App Store that could help you add social icons as well. You can choose from Social Media Icons, Social Share Buttons and more.