How to remove social media icon in footer dawn theme

Topic summary

A Dawn theme user wants to remove social media icons from the footer while keeping them in the sidebar menu.

Solutions provided:

  • Theme settings approach: Navigate to Online Store > Themes > Customize > Footer section, then uncheck the ‘Show social media icons’ option

  • CSS method: Add custom CSS code to the base.css file (found in Online Store > Themes > Edit Code > Assets) to hide the footer social icons:

ul.footer-list__social.list-social.list-unstyled.list-social {
  display: none;
}
  • Alternative: Remove all social media links through Online Store > Theme > Customize > Settings > Social media

The issue was resolved, with the original poster confirming the solution worked and was simpler than expected.

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Hi, I use dawn theme. I’m looking for remove social icon from footer but not on sidebar menu thanks for your help guys

HI @hedo ,

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
  2. Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click Customize.
  3. Click on the Footer section.
  4. Uncheck the ‘Show social media icons’.

Please refer to the attached screenshot for a better understanding

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@hedo
put below css into base.css file (online store->themes->edit code->assets->base.css)

ul.footer__list-social.list-unstyled.list-social {
    display: none;
}
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Hello @hedo

It’s GemPages support team and glad to support you today.

I would like to give you a solution to support you.

  1. Go to Online Store → Theme → Customize.

  2. Open setting → Social media

  3. remove all link of Social media

Hope my solution can work and support you!

Kind & Best regards!

GemPages Support Team.

Well, sometime easy thing are the hardest hahaha Was so easy. Thank you so much