Social Icon

The Social Icon is a foundational block that displays various icons linking to different social profiles or sites. Each social service is registered as a variation of this block.

Adding new social icons

The core maintains certain standards for adding new social icons. To add a new variation to WordPress, it must be well-established and popular.

To evaluate if a social service should be added, contributors will consider the following factors:

• Is the service popular enough for core developers to have heard of it before? Is it “mainstream?”
• How long has the service been online?
• Does it have a Wikipedia article?
• Is there a plugin adding social icons in the repository that includes the services in question and has a considerable number of active installations?
• Is this social service frequently requested?

Adding custom social icons

Starting from WordPress 6.9, it’s possible to add custom social icons to your site. See:

• Pull Request that introduced custom social icons – #70261.
• Developer Blog tutorial for custom social icons – Registering custom social icons in WordPress 6.9.

Display an icon linking to a social profile or site.

• Name: core/social-link
• Category: widgets
• API Version: 3
• Block Type: Dynamic (server-rendered)

Block Relationships

Parent blocks (direct):
– core/social-links

Attributes

Defined via the attributes property in block.json.

Supports

Defined via the supports property in block.json.

• anchor: true
• reusable: false
• html: false
• interactivity:
  • clientNavigation: true

Context

Defined via the usesContext and providesContext properties in block.json.

Uses context:

• openInNewTab
• showLabels
• iconColor
• iconColorValue
• iconBackgroundColor
• iconBackgroundColorValue

Block Markup

This is a dynamic block. It is rendered on the server and does not save HTML in post content.

In post content, it is stored as a block comment:

<!-- wp:social-link {"service":"spotify","url":"https://example.com/"} /-->

Source

• block.json (reference)
• Source directory — browse the edit and save source files, index.php, and more.