Youtube social icon to link to channel not user

[Bitedge]

Hi guy’s how can I get the Youtube social icon to link to

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMg56LlDJPFkctKue3qd-hQ

As it is I can only link it to a username but the username that I created the website’s channel from is my personal one and when I link to it it displays my personal channel which I can not delete (because I use google Identity) and has nothing to do with the website…

Thanks

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Yes you can hack in to the code.

Go to includes\shortcodes.php

and in line #602 and #655 you find something like this

$social_icons .= '< li class="youtube">< a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/'.$youtube.'" target="_blank">YouTube< /a>'."\n";

in those line remove this alone “http://www.youtube.com/user/” and now enter the link you mentioned in the theme options, all set to go.

Let me know, what you got.

Thanks,
laranz.

[Bitedge]

When I go in to Cpanel file editor public_html/wp-includes/shortcodes.php has 377 lines of code and the term youtube does not feature in it once…

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

You should go inside, \wp-content\themes\flexform\includes\shortcodes.php not wp-includes/shortcodes.php

Thanks,
laranz.

[Bitedge]

That works thanks, so I will have to do that after every time I update the theme?

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Unfortunately yes!

Thanks,
laranz.