Adding Social Media Links etc.

A sad story of Enfold.
Social media marketing and embedding of easier link solution is not understood by enfold.
This question to have an easier solution for social marketing comes since 2013, referenced in Google for Specific search

enfold social media documentation shortcodes

Some users don’t want to have a share button. A link to the social media profiles is also often requested (instead only in footer or header), without any discussion of the GDPR-Note for social share-buttons. I can’t understand, why not into the “share” element a dropdown is implemented for seleting “share” or “open social media profile”, as we have defined in Enfold.

Despite the many requests over the years.

Many other themes have had simple solutions here for years.

Why you can’t find a solution here, I can’t deduce. Instead, we have to go into some “debug” menus and do some manual work.
I can’t understand, why you make Enfold users the work difficulty.

I mean: We have defined the Social Profiles in Enfold. I can’t deduce why this stupid share-bar with these old-fashioned icons is not updated. And you don’t have a widget for sidebar or the website.

Creating something like this must be a feat for Enfold that is impossible to create: yes, I know we should install the 30121 plugin additionally.

It would be nice, if you implement this feature in your roadmap, which is requested again and again very often since 2013. (See google).
Instead to create the same answers.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Hokuspokus.

Dear Ismael,

Both. All in one solution.

Easy things, which are known from third parties plugins and other themes.

User asks for easy things and good layout, where visitors have easy access to social pages (to gain follower or sharings), where Enfold users have easy things, which are known from other things of you cool website builder.

Ismael, you have the best layout builder ever and inside this universe.
But some things have the touch from the early 2000. I hope, you don’t stop the investigation, to give more to your users.

Share or link – give the user, what he need.
Let the user decide.
Make processes easy instead to manipulate CSS things. The manual is horrible. Why you use this not as drag-drop-easy-listening-toolbox? See the image at the end.

Cool icons, easy processes. (possible a toggle inside the existing social element to switch between share or link – easy revamp). I know, you can solve it. Please invest in the future.

Most of your users need easy processes. Most people don’t want to manipulate CSS things. You see it at the calls. It’s less work here to answer the questions again and again.

Workflow: as we know: at enfold menu, we define the social accounts.

In my mind: An easy widget, where user can decide, which icons want to see, round, grey, rectangle, with hover effect or without. Whatever. Or fullwidth rectangle inside the sidebar. There are so many cool things outside this predefined set from the beginning of enfold.

Easy usage and mirroring from one template via “page content” element. To have one place for the original social box. And if anything is changed (e.g. new network) user can change it at one place and can mirroring this via page content element.

I work with the “page content” element very fast. Contact forms, trust banners, team members: All is at some preset pages. And I can mirror all. That was one of your biggest features to make work easier.

A easy social widget for sidebar, footer, inside the content. Whatever the possibility is. This was my wish…and many users also, if you read the Google history and compare, what Kriesi’s competitors do.