How to add contact information in social network bar

I’m starting to get this feeling you have never done any HTML before, based on your other topic posts?

This one is harder to do, so it’s not really easy to write a tutorial here because what you want to do, is going to need some html coding skills to create a container, do floats, and other CSS styling to make sure it sits properly next to the social icons.

Basically you will need to add your code just before this container in the header.php file:

<div id="st-socialbar">

Thank you so much for answering my post. I have created and developed websites using HTML but I am still fairly new to learning how WordPress works.

I will try to create the container in the header.php file in my child theme. I just didn’t want to go in there and start adding code in only to find out that my changes get removed when the theme is updated.

I will start my code to integrate the contact information into the social network bar starting my code just before the st-socialbar div as you suggested.

WordPress can have a learning curve, but also when you have to work with different themes from different developers.

Anyway, it’s good you used a child theme because as you were wondering about losing the changes with theme updates, that can be discouraging for many. This is why a child theme is recommended by WordPress for custom changes so that when the parent theme does have updates, you won’t lose all your hard work ??

Yeah it is a bit of a learning curve even for the seasoned web designer using other methods to code and develop websites.
I was confused as to what would get updated in the child theme when the main theme was updated. I was under the impression that if I customized the code in the stylesheet or php files of the child theme that they would all get over written when the main theme was updated.

That is the beauty of a child theme…it keeps your changes ??
However, I would would highly recommend keeping regular backups of your site and database. Always good to play safe for those unexpected events that seems to show up when we don’t expect it.It amazes me how many do not do that.

That’s great to know about the child theme.

I always keep backups of the website and database and make sure that it does a nightly backup. I really hate when something goes wrong and I lose my work, so the backups always help to go back and not have to start from again from the beginning.

Yeah, it can be amazing how often people don’t back up their work. As a graphic designer its something i’m very used to and also have multiple places that I backup all my work to so that if one place doesn’t work I can go to another and recover my work.

I know this is set to resolve but I have a follow up question to this…I want to know how can I change the location of the social network bar so that it shows up at the very top of the website above the header. I also want to make this bar smaller, how can I go about doing that within the code?

Thanks for the help. ??