Personally, I don’t think this is something exciting enough to merit a post. However I want to keep up with posting so that maybe I’ll at least get in the habit of recording some of the things I do, whether programming or otherwise.

So, when I first chose the Platform theme by PageLines, the social bar in the top right only had options for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Youtube accounts. Now the theme is quite user friendly in that all you have to do is add your profile web address of the related service in the theme configuration and the icon is added automatically. There is no need to do any html markup, custom css, or otherwise. That is unless there is something the publishers haven’t included. So naturally, I wanted these social links for some of the other services that I use; Google+, SoundCloud, and Vimeo to name a few.

After some digging around google, the pagelines forum, and the theme code, I had found what I wanted. There were just a few files to change, and as you can see the outcome was amazing. (Look at the top right of the screen!) The extra icons were integrated seamlessly both into the site appearance, and into the theme configuration. Other sites such as Digg, Flickr, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and Myspace were also added as they were already included in the icon set and only needed some simple php and css to be added into the theme configuration files.

The edited files are available in zip format below. Each has the altered section tagged with “@ Modifications”, and there is also a text file named “File Locations” included which gives the location to place each file with respect to the theme root.

Platform Theme Social Links