{"id":397,"date":"2025-02-24T01:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T01:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/02\/24\/10625194-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-add-social-media-icons-in-your-header\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T04:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:17:05","slug":"10625194-hostinger-ai-builder-manual-mode-how-to-add-social-media-icons-in-your-header","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10625194-hostinger-ai-builder-manual-mode-how-to-add-social-media-icons-in-your-header\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger AI Builder: How to add social media icons to the header in manual mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add social media icons to your <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-hostinger-ai-builder\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ai-builder\">Hostinger AI Builder<\/a> manual mode website&rsquo;s header to let visitors connect, follow, and interact with your social media profiles. Insert a link to your profile, and <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-hostinger-ai-builder-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ai-builder\">Hostinger AI Builder<\/a> automatically generates the matching icon, such as the LinkedIn icon for a LinkedIn profile link.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-add-social-media-icons\">Add social media icons<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To add a social media icon to your website&rsquo;s header, follow these steps:<\/p><ol>\n<li class=\"no-margin\">Click on the header section and select<a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-edit-header\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6463972-hostinger-ai-builder-manual-mode-how-to-edit-the-header-section\/\"><b> Edit header<\/b><\/a>:<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/02\/8e8de627-9ced-4ab6-8315-88f6841df7c8.jpg\" alt=\"Hostinger Website Builder header editor button highlighted in the top bar\" data-media-id=\"2017\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"no-margin\">Open the <b>Elements <\/b>tab<b>&nbsp;<\/b>and <b>toggle the Show social icons <\/b>to enable them:<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-34.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-34.png 443w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-34-300x290.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"no-margin\">Click Edit social icons:<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-34_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-34_1.png 449w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-34_1-300x287.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"no-margin\">Now, add the links to your social media platforms. You may also change the icon size and color:<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-35.png 441w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-35-196x300.png 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTES<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">To add an email icon, insert your email address:<br>\n&#8203;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-38.png 547w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-38-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">To add a phone icon, insert the desire phone number without any symbols, as below:<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-40.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-40.png 590w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_09-40-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If the link isn&rsquo;t recognized, the icon won&rsquo;t be automatically generated, and you&rsquo;ll see a standard link symbol<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-contact-support\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583780-how-to-contact-hostinger-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact support<\/a><\/b> and share the link you were trying to add: we&rsquo;ll make sure to include the necessary icon into our database as soon as possible<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">There may exist various link formats for the same social media platform, so the more formats you encounter, the better<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add social media icons to your website&#8217;s header in Hostinger AI Builder manual mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-builder"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10625194-hostinger-ai-builder-manual-mode-how-to-add-social-media-icons-in-your-header","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19039,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/19039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}