Activating Social Icons in Dawn 8.0 Header

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Topic summary

A user upgraded from Dawn 7.0 to Dawn 8.0 and noticed the new header file contains social icon code but lacks a built-in activation method. They previously added custom code for social icons in Dawn 7.0 and want to display them in the header of Dawn 8.0 without reverting to their old customization.

Current Status:

  • Dawn 8.0 doesn’t include a native option to add social icons in the header
  • Custom code modifications are required to achieve this functionality

Proposed Solution:
A community member offered step-by-step guidance:

  • Edit the header section file in the theme code
  • Locate the anchor tag structure
  • Add social icon code adjacent to existing header icons (near the cart icon selector)

The discussion remains open as implementation details appear incomplete in the provided response.

Summarized with AI on November 22. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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I had put code to place social icons in the header of my Dawn 7.0 theme (for willcartermedia.com). In the update of Dawn 8.0, the header file code from Shopify is significantly different and seems to have social icon code already in it, but no way to activate the icons. Before I try to edit the Dawn 8.0 header theme file to place the social icons back in, does anyone have experience with activating the header social icons with the theme as written by Shopify?

I would like to edit Dawn 8.0 so that the icons display as pictured below:

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Thanks in advance for your help!

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Hi @willcartermedia

We dont have option to add social icon with header icon, for that need custom code chnages

i can give you way to do if you can

follow this

  1. open "Section → header.liquid " and find for selector "header__icon–cart "

  2. now you can see its anchor so find for closing anchor for that and add your social icon code next to this

Best regard