Social Icons

Display icons linking to your social media profiles or sites.

This block is available in the latest version of WordPress and does not require the Gutenberg plugin.

Last updated

April 20, 2024

Category: Widgets

For developers

View source on GitHub

Block Grammar & Markup

<!-- wp:social-links -->
<ul class="wp-block-social-links"><!-- wp:social-link {"service":"mastodon","url":"https://mastodon.social/@marcuskaz"} /--></ul>
<!-- /wp:social-links -->

Context

Context is used to pass values from a block to a descendant block; for example, a query and post template passing the query ID to the inner blocks.

Documentation

Provides context. Optional. Type: Object.

{
  "openInNewTab": "openInNewTab",
  "showLabels": "showLabels",
  "iconColor": "iconColor",
  "iconColorValue": "iconColorValue",
  "iconBackgroundColor": "iconBackgroundColor",
  "iconBackgroundColorValue": "iconBackgroundColorValue"
}

Block Attributes

Optional. Type: Object.

Attributes provide the structured data needs of a block. They can exist in different forms when they are serialized, but they are declared together under a common interface.

Documentation

{
  "iconColor": {
    "type": "string"
  },
  "customIconColor": {
    "type": "string"
  },
  "iconColorValue": {
    "type": "string"
  },
  "iconBackgroundColor": {
    "type": "string"
  },
  "customIconBackgroundColor": {
    "type": "string"
  },
  "iconBackgroundColorValue": {
    "type": "string"
  },
  "openInNewTab": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "default": false
  },
  "showLabels": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "default": false
  },
  "size": {
    "type": "string"
  }
}

Block Supports

Optional. Type: Object.

A set of options that enables or disables block controls in the editor, for example gradient colors or padding.

Documentation

{
  "align": [
    "left",
    "center",
    "right"
  ],
  "anchor": true,
  "__experimentalExposeControlsToChildren": true,
  "layout": {
    "allowSwitching": false,
    "allowInheriting": false,
    "allowVerticalAlignment": false,
    "default": {
      "type": "flex"
    }
  },
  "color": {
    "enableContrastChecker": false,
    "background": true,
    "gradients": true,
    "text": false,
    "__experimentalDefaultControls": {
      "background": false
    }
  },
  "spacing": {
    "blockGap": [
      "horizontal",
      "vertical"
    ],
    "margin": true,
    "padding": true,
    "units": [
      "px",
      "em",
      "rem",
      "vh",
      "vw"
    ],
    "__experimentalDefaultControls": {
      "blockGap": true,
      "margin": true,
      "padding": false
    }
  },
  "interactivity": {
    "clientNavigation": true
  }
}

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