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title: Social media
url: https://support.troopthemes.com/guide/maker/social-media/
theme: Maker
theme_styles: Bloom
---

# Social media in Maker

**Edit theme** → **Theme settings** → **Social media**.

![Maker Social media in Theme settings](https://support.troopthemes.com/_images/maker/social-media--settings.jpg)

These settings control the social icons that appear in the footer, announcement bar, and other sections across the theme in one place, not per section.

## Theme settings → Social media (Maker)

- **Hover color**: **Match brand** (each platform's own color), **Opacity** (dims on hover), or **None**.
- One field per platform (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, Youtube, Vimeo, Pinterest, 𝕏, TikTok, Tumblr, Snapchat, Bluesky): paste that profile's URL to show its icon.

Leave a platform blank and no icon shows for it. Sections do not need each icon toggled individually.

If you already added social links in Shopify's [brand assets](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/promoting-marketing/managing-brand-assets) (**Settings** → **General** → **Brand assets** → **Social links**), the theme uses those by default and no further setup is needed here. A URL entered in **Theme settings** → **Social media** overrides the brand setting for that platform only. This is useful when a section-specific or seasonal account should differ from your main brand profile.

## Troubleshooting (Maker)

- **An icon is not showing**: that platform's URL field is empty here and in **Settings** → **Brand**.
- **The wrong URL is showing**: a value here always wins over **Settings** → **Brand** for that platform.
- **Icons do not change color on hover**: **Hover color** is set to **None**.