Social Prifiles – you tube

[johnlalor]

Hi I just cannot get this to work. the site I am doing want to link to their youtube – username is Kim Tha Hay

when I search you tube using Kim Tha Hay the page comes up.

However when I put Kim Tha Hay in social profiles i cannot get the link to come up when i press the icon on the pages. Is it because the is a space between the words???

Could you have a look for me. Thanks

[Melanie – SUPPORT]

Yes you would need to find the profile name, which usually is part of the URL.
Is this the profile? http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmYzl_CUSWh7DJR1ZJN3ASw

Then try adding the URL or only UCmYzl_CUSWh7DJR1ZJN3ASw

Cheers

[johnlalor]

Yes I have tried both of those and still no go.

The options seems to work fine with a user name that is has no spaces

Is there any way around this

Thanks

[Cosmin – SUPPORT]

Hey,

The YouTube widget is meant for profiles, not channels.

I’ve created a tutorial for our Supreme theme, but it should work for Pinpoint as well, so here goes:

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– Open wp-content/themes/pinpoint/includes/shortcodes.php via FTP with a code editor, such as Sublime Text 2 or Dreamweaver or Notepad++
– go to line ±600, where you see this:

if ($youtube) { $social_icons .= '<li class="youtube"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/'.$youtube.'" target="_blank">YouTube</a></li>'; }

Change that to:

if ($youtube) { $social_icons .= '<li class="youtube"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/'.$youtube.'" target="_blank">YouTube</a></li>'; }

It is also required to change ‘user’ for ‘channel’ in line 83 in widget-subscribers.php

wp-content/themes/pinpoint/includes/widgets/widget-subscribers.php

Save the files to server and it should work as you need it now.

Regards,

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Cosmin
Support Assistant