Use CSS Sprites to add social media icons to WordPress

Although there are many plugins that can help you add social media icons to your website, not all all all The plug -in is equal. Some of them may consume your server, let alone low customization.

Fortunately, there is an alternative to help your website maintain lightning -like speed: CSS Sprites.

Generally, a separate image is added to each social media link to the site. Although this is considered a reasonable encoding, it does mean that when the visitor loads the page, the additional server request of each image is required. Of course, the more server requests on the page, the longer the loading time.

The beauty of CSS Sprites is that they can include all images of social media icons, and at the same time they can still mappate all corresponding links. This means less server request, saving bandwidth and fast loading page. A win -win situation!

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use CSS to make your own complete customized social media icon for your WordPress website, including saving some time for you and making the project easier to complete Code.

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Create creation Your image

Add links and images to your site

Add your icon and style

Create your image

Create creation The first step of your CSS Elf is to create images using social media icons you want to use. It should have two tight stacked layers:

The top layer

-will be visible on the page

• The underlying layer – Mouse mouse The icon that can be seen when husing
• This is the example of your icon:

You can customize your icon to suns to you for you The template is perfectly designed.

Please remember that I did not use a transparent background for this image so that they can be clearly displayed in this tutorial. Ideally, the background of the image should be transparent, so that even if you change the style and background color of the theme, you can also use these icons.You don’t need to add spaces between each image, because C can be used laterSS adds it. This depends entirely on you.

In this example, the icon will be displayed on the site as gray, but when the mouse hovers at When it is on it, its color version will be displayed. After creating your own social media icon set, you can make the next step.

Before continuing, you need to know the width and height of each symbol (in pixels), so be sure to write it down. Image editing program can help you identify this information.

Add links and images to your site

upload the image to your site and write down the position of the image in order to call it in the code later.

Next, you need to add social media links to your website to make these icons play a role. You can use HTML to perform this operation:

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This is the basic structure required for your link. By replacing

SocialSite

instances and

, add the actual name of the site you want to link. Make sure to replace the URL.

Each icon in the image of the image created by you repeat the second line in the above code above Replace virtual text along the way. You can also choose to change the name of DIV ID to the name that is more suitable for you. The best position to place this code is in the theme file you want to appear directly. For example, you can add the link to

Sidebar.php

, FOOTER.PHP ,

Header.php

or page template files. Don’t be shy. Add the title text with a descriptive title or any other code you want. Don’t forget to save after completion. If your link is not like this, please don’t worry. It doesn’t look beautiful now, but it will soon be.

After the completion, you will not see any difference in your website, but it doesn’t matter, because we have to add pictures next. You can also consider style, filling and spacing later.

I added a standard to the link on my test siteTitle to show you the position of the link.

Add your icons and styles It is time to add your icon with CSS It’s right. If you are willing, you can add the code to the theme style.css file or through custom CSS plug -in.

This is the code you need to add:

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