Add Social Links to Author Profiles

This guide will show you how expand author profiles in PublishPress Authors with links to social profiles.

The Pro version of PublishPress Authors has a feature called “Author Fields”. This feature arrives with six default fields for you to use:

• Twitter / X
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• Facebook
• TikTok

Follow these steps to add a field to your author profiles:

• Edit the field and change the “Field Status” to “Active”.
• Go to the “Author Profile” area and enter a profile link for your own account. This will show that the fields is working, and also give us an example to test with.

• Go to the “Author Boxes” area and edit an author box.
• Go to the “Author Fields” tab and enable your new field. In this screenshot below, I'm enabling the YouTube field:

• You will now see the social icon in your preview window, as in this screenshot.

• You may need to adjust some settings such as the “Color” option to match your design. You can also customize other settings such as prefix, suffix, size, height, and the icon.