Changing social media icons

Topic summary

A user working with Shopify’s Dawn theme wants to replace the default social media icons in their footer with custom images.

Current Challenge:

  • The existing icons are SVG format
  • User has custom icon images ready but doesn’t know how to implement them in the code
  • Unfamiliar with working with SVG files and Liquid code

Proposed Solution:

  1. Upload custom icon images (SVG, PNG, or JPG) to the theme’s assets folder
  2. Modify the footer code to reference the new images instead of current ones

Status:
The discussion remains open with the helper offering to provide more detailed guidance via email if the user shares their footer.liquid code file.

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Hi guys,

Anyone knows how to change the icon images of the socials in my footer? Theme im using is dawn

Website: https://hausi.nl/ PW: theepa

Thanks!

@Hausi - hello, it is svg image icon, so you can choose the icons yo want, upload them to assets folder of your theme and then make code change to the footer file to include your new icon in place of svg file icon

Hi, thanks for your reply. Could you explain it a bit more? I am not familiar with svg files

Thanks

@Hausi - it is an image type like png/jpg and it is created using coding. Which new icons do you want to add? and which icon image are you using? png/jpg?

@suyash1 I can do svg, png or jpg. It does not matter. I want images like this:

@Hausi - you can get images you want, then you have to upload those images to your active theme → assets folder

@suyash1 yes i have the images. My problem is i dont know how to link them correctly in the code. Sorry i am taking a lot of your time

@Hausi - upload images to theme’s assets folder, then you can image to footer code where you have current images… if yo are ok with it then yo can email me the footer.liquid code, from that I can guide yo bit more, you have my email below