Simple email address instead of link for email icon?

Thanks Sam for your nice words. Currently what you can do is upload a custom icon and then link it to your contact-us page. Would that do? Rgds, John

Hi John-
Sorry, my goal is just to make the email button be a simple email link. Also, I’m struggling to add my own Custom1 icon – I’ve tried uploading the exact default email icon, but I can’t seem to make it accept the icon (I tried adding others as well, without success). I had no problem adding a whole set of custom icons (Under Optional 4 – but I can’t change the email link this way).

Thanks for the help.

Please try the following: Set “allow_url_fopen” to on (please ask your server admin, he’ll know what to do). Does that work?

I already have a php.ini file which has that line and set to On. The php.ini is in the root folder of my wordpress site.

Any other ideas?

Could you please send me a screenshot of the error message to support at ultimatelysocial dot com?

That’s the problem, there is no error message. I go to upload an icon after clicking Custom1, choose the item, click insert in post, then it takes me back to the Upload popup again, where I have no other option but to close that popup and no icon ever shows up.

That is very strange… could you please send me the icon you’re trying to upload so that I can try myself?

Hi John,

I agree with OP that a mailto link should be an option. I want the user to click on the email icon and have it open up their email client to send a message to me. Since the email icon can’t do this, I added a custom icon to it, and tried to add the mailto:[email protected] as the custom link, but it tells me this is invalid format. I dont want it to link to the contact page, I already have links for that… I would really like the custom icon to be able to accept a standard mailto: link. Any A href tag accepts this style of link is html.

Thanks for a good plugin.

Cheers, Chris

Ok, thanks Chris, I’ll try to include it in an update soon.