Lost social links until added Font Awesome

  • Resolved rockingh

    (@rockingh)


    7 years ago

    Hi All
    As a charity and feeling our way with WP we suddenly lost our social icons in header and footer.
    After browsing help topics we saw it may be worth trying font awesome resources in advanced.
    Which we did and they now work but we are concerned because of the warnings on the page.
    “Use with caution. When checked, the Font Awesome icons and CSS will be loaded on the front end. You might want to load the Font Awesome icons with a custom code, or let a plugin do it for you.”
    Is it ok to carry on or do we ought to find a plugin etc.
    BTW, we do wish there was a definitive recommended list of plugins for our sort of site. It would be much easier to find which are the best to use.
    Many thanks
    Chris

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter rockingh

    (@rockingh)

    Further to above it seems to have upset the side bars. I’ve got “No sidebars : full width layout” set everywhere I can find it but there is still a blank side bar there???
    I’ve tried turning font awesome off etc. and other options but its still there?
    Thanks Chris

    Hi there,
    yes the Font Awesome needs to be loaded in order to show the social icons.
    That notice in the customizer needs to be updated: it just wants to warn that you can avoid the loading of the fontawesome icons the theme ships if you have a plugin that already ships them.

    About the layout:
    cannot reproduce the issue here.
    Does it happen also when the option Force default layout everywhere in Appearance -> Customize -> Main Content -> Pages & Post Layout is checked?
    Do you have any caching system active?
    Tried to clean the server side cache?

    Thread Starter rockingh

    (@rockingh)

    Hi Rocco
    Many thanks for setting our minds to rest re font awesome.
    We’ve checked Force default layout and it wasnt checked but is now.
    But the layout is still with left hand blank border?
    No idea what “Do you have any caching system active? and Tried to clean the server side cache?”
    Can you please explain? Many thanks.

    Hi,
    about the layout. Are your settings something like in the below screenshot?

    View post on imgur.com

    and published of course… right?
    Does any change to the layout options apply to the live preview in the customizer?
    I’m not able to reproduce the issue here :/

    With server side cache I meant either a caching plugin (like wp super cache, w3 total cache etc.) or a default caching made by your hosting (in this case you should ask to your hosting provider).

    Thread Starter rockingh

    (@rockingh)

    Hi Rocco
    Many, many thanks, went again to page you have shown and it was showing left sidebar although previously I’m certain it was no sidebar, full width!!!! Changed it and now all ok so anyway many thanks again.

    No problem ??
    Glad you solved!

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