alvis/magento2-social 1.0.0

Social media.

Type

magento2-module

License

MIT

Requires
  • alvis/magento2-core ~1.0.0
Requires (dev)

None

Suggests

None

Provides

None

Conflicts

None

Replaces

None

Magento 2: Social

Simple module for keeping your social profile URLs in one manageable area.

Installation

Recommended installation through composer, within your Magento root directory enter the following:

composer require alvis/magento2-social

Alternatively you can install manually by following these steps:

  1. Install the magento2-core dependency module, following the README
  2. Now you can return to install this module, download the repo zip file and extract
  3. You should have a folder called 'magento2-social-master'. Rename this folder to 'Social'
  4. Under your Magento site folder create a new directory 'app/code/Alvis'
  5. Upload the module to this folder 'app/code/Alvis/Social'

Enable the module

php bin/magento module:enable Alvis_Core
php bin/magento module:enable Alvis_Social

You may also need to re-compile:

php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile

Module configuration

The module configuration can be found through the main menu under Alvis.

Profiles

Current social media profiles available:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • GitHub

Integration

By default profile links display in the footer.

Move xml block within your theme <VendorName>/<ThemeName>/Alvis_Social/layout/default.xml:

<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <move element="alvis_social.profiles" destination="main" after="-" />
    </body>
</page>

Remove xml block within your theme <VendorName>/<ThemeName>/Alvis_Social/layout/default.xml:

<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <referenceContainer name="footer">
            <referenceBlock name="alvis_social.profiles" remove="true" />
        </referenceContainer>
    </body>
</page>

Override the default templates within your theme create the following files:

<VendorName>/<ThemeName>/Alvis_Social/templates/profiles.phtml

The original contents of the files can be found under:

<Root>/vendor/alvis/magento2-social/view/frontend/templates/profiles.phtml

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