Change Simple Social Icons Background & Hover Color

In this post, i’ll give you the CSS code which you can use to change the background and hover colors of each button when using the Simple Social Icons plugin.

Patrick asked:

Hi, does anyone know if there is a way to change the color and hover color of each icon individually for Simple Social Icons? That is, I’d like each icon to be its traditional colors instead of all being the same color.

Simple Social Icons

Simply add this CSS at the end of your child themes style.css file and change the hex color codes to suit your own styling preferences.

.simple-social-icons .social-facebook a {
    background-color: #4965a0 !important;
}

.simple-social-icons .social-facebook a:hover {
    background-color: orange !important;
}

.simple-social-icons .social-gplus a {
    background-color: #dd4b39 !important;
}

.simple-social-icons .social-gplus a:hover {
    background-color: black !important;
}

.simple-social-icons .social-twitter a {
    background-color: #00abf0 !important;
}

.simple-social-icons .social-twitter a:hover {
    background-color: grey !important;
}

Float Icons Left or Right

.simple-social-icons {
    float: right;
}

Please check the FAQ on the plugin site for more details about which icons you can use.

The plugin has been developed by the lead developer of Genesis, Nathan Rice and StudioPress themes.


Comments

10 responses to “Change Simple Social Icons Background & Hover Color”

  1. Brian Thomas Avatar
    Brian Thomas

    When adding social icons to Outreach Pro there’s extra space added to the top of the icon area. When I adjust with CSS using a negative top margin it looks good on the desktop version, but the icon is on top of the logo in the mobile version. This is the website – http://thecabinretreat.com/

    At the moment I removed the negative top margin so you can see how it looks when adding the social icon. Any help would be appreciated.

    1. I think you could wrap your CSS rule in a media query and modify it to change the positioning on smaller screens.

      [code]
      @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {

      .your-class {
      property: value;
      }

      }
      [/code]

  2. I have the theme Zee but can NOT for the life of me get my logo at the top of the front page any larger. Nothing is working. Can you help? Please know I am not at all good with all the codes, etc.

    1. Brad Dalton Avatar
      Brad Dalton

      I do not know that theme and it really doesn’t relate to Simple Social Icons

  3. Carolyn Y Avatar

    Awesome, thanks! I was just wondering if this could be done. I’m going to try it out soon!

    1. Brad Dalton Avatar
      Brad Dalton

      You can also make them round if you want.

      1. Jessica Avatar
        Jessica

        Can you share how to make them round please?

        1. Jessica Avatar
          Jessica

          Nevermind!

  4. Great tip, thanks for it.
    You’ve changed the look of your website again! I like it. The green header and the subscription field on top looks good.

    1. Brad Dalton Avatar
      Brad Dalton

      Hi Zimbrul

      Yep. Trying to make my site look more presentable. Think it looks a bit better.

      Thanks for the compliment.

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