Creating a field to use custom social icons

  • Published by
    George Papadakis
  • Last modified
    28 October 2013
  • Up to date
    Yes
  • Concerns
    Component Plugins
  • Since Version
    1.5.6
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  1. Download/install a joomla CONTENT plugin (for social icons) from extensions.joomla.org
  2. Create a FLEXIcontent text field
  3. Put the code of the joomla CONTENT plugin as default value of the text field
  4. Set the default value to be loaded always (parameter "Usage of default value")
  5. Set the text field to trigger this joomla CONTENT plugin
  6. Set the text field to be hidden in both frontent & backend item forms
  7. Add the field to the a template position of item layout
  8. View the item in frontend


Note some content plugins use special events to place html before title, after title etc (i have updated code), and next version v1.5.6a+ , v2.0a+ will use them properly