{"id":86,"date":"2021-02-23T18:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/documentation.userswp.io\/article\/uwp-profile-social\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:17:38","slug":"uwp-profile-social","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/article\/core-widgets\/uwp-profile-social\/","title":{"rendered":"UWP > Profile Social"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"alert alert-success dashed\">\n\t All Widgets come as Widgets, Shortcodes or Blocks. Learn more about our <a href=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/article\/what-makes-userswp-widgets-special\/\">Super Duper Widgets<\/a>.<\/section>\n<p>The <strong>UWP &gt; Profile Social<\/strong> widget allows you to display a user\u2019s social media icons within the users profile.<\/p>\n<section class=\"alert alert-info\"> <strong>UWP &gt; Profile Social<\/strong>&nbsp;works best when added to a page or block area, as certain themes may have responsiveness issues with custom sidebar widgets.&nbsp;<\/section>\n<h2>Widget Options<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Exclude Fields &#8211; <\/strong>Allows you to hide selected social media icons from the profile. Enter the social media field names (e.g., facebook, twitter) separated by commas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The social profile section is a list of social network icons. These icons correspond to the social network fields that you can add to the account form for your users.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Social services like Facebook and Twitter each have their own fields. When users will in the fields, then that service links and icon will be displayed in the social profile section.<\/p>\n<p>The functionality of this widget is also included in the UWP &gt; Profile widget. This UWP &gt; Profile Social widget is for custom layouts where you want to show the social icon list using your own layout.<\/p>\n<h2>Example Output<\/h2>\n<p>Default output:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This widget creates an output that looks similar to this:<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"920\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/file-cTb3K06d74-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the widget options shown in the shortcode builder. The widget has just one option, to enter the field key for any field service you want to exclude like &#8216;facebook&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"920\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/file-Iq87jjh1Di-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>To add social network fields to the profile, visit the Form Builder Doc for more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Widgets come as Widgets, Shortcodes or Blocks. Learn more about our Super Duper Widgets. The UWP &gt; Profile Social widget allows you to display a user\u2019s social media icons within the users profile. UWP &gt; Profile Social&nbsp;works best when added to a page or block area, as certain themes may have responsiveness issues with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[104],"article\/categories":[20,5],"class_list":["post-86","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_place_tags-profile-widget","gd_placecategory-core-widgets","gd_placecategory-extensions-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}