{"id":44833,"date":"2015-03-27T03:27:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T07:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=44833"},"modified":"2016-02-22T11:00:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T16:00:35","slug":"wordpress-how-to-fix-google-icon-not-displaying-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wordpress-how-to-fix-google-icon-not-displaying-issue.html","title":{"rendered":"WordPress. How to fix Google+ icon not displaying issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<p>Hello! This video tutorial shows how to fix Google+ icon not displaying issue in your WordPress web-site.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iusaNkrMI_s?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">WordPress. How to fix Google+ icon not displaying issue<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>At times you can see the Google+ icon is not displayed in your social media section although it is set properly in admin panel.<\/p>\r\n<p>The issue is caused by server settings, since server often does not recognize <strong>&#8220;+&#8221;<\/strong> sign.<\/p>\r\n<p>Let&#8217;s learn how to fix this issue.<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Access your WordPress dashboard and go to <strong>Appearance ->Editor<\/strong> tab.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Locate the <strong>static-social-networks.php<\/strong> file on the right hand side of the appeared screen and click on its title to open the file:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_1-300x165.png\" alt=\"wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_1-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_1-150x82.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_1.png 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Locate the following code in the opened file:<\/p>\r\n<pre>$social_networks = array(&quot;facebook&quot;, &quot;google+&quot;, &quot;rss&quot;, &quot;pinterest&quot;, &quot;linkedin&quot;);<\/pre>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>Just change the <strong>&quot;google+&quot;<\/strong> to &quot;<strong>google&quot;<\/strong>. Save the file by clicking on <strong>&#8220;Update File&#8221;<\/strong> button:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_2-300x166.png\" alt=\"wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_2-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_2-150x83.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_2.png 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Now, you need to change the Google+ icon image name.<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Access your FTP\/hosting control panel File Manager and locate the <strong>google+.png<\/strong> file in the <strong>\/wp-content\/themes\/theme51224\/images\/icons\/<\/strong> directory.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Just rename the file to <strong>google.png<\/strong> .<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Open your front-end and refresh the page to see changes:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_3-300x155.png\" alt=\"wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_3\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_3-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_3-150x77.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wordpress_how_to_fix_google_plus_icon_not_displaying_3.png 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>The Google+ icon is now displayed in the social media section.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is the end of the tutorial, you have learnt how to fix Google+ icon not displaying issue in WordPress templates.<\/p>\r\n<p>Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iusaNkrMI_s?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">WordPress. How to fix Google+ icon not displaying issue<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video tutorial shows how to fix Google+ icon not displaying issue in your Wordpress website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":44838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[728],"tags":[894,929,674,1884,2405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}