How To Add Social Follow Button In WordPress Website Without Plugin

This article is all about how to add social follow buttons to a WordPress website or you can say how to add social icons in a WordPress website without plugins.

HTML Code To Create social follow button

<div class="web-insights">
<p class="fttl">Follow Us</p>
<p class="ffttl">Stay updated via social media</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-whatsapp" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></li>
<li><a href="#" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-facebook" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></li>
<li><a href="#" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-twitter" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></li>
<li><a href="#" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-instagram" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></li>
<li><a href="#" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-paper-plane" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></li>
<li><a href="#" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-youtube-play" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></li>
<li><a href="#" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-pinterest-p" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></li>
</ul>
</div>

CSS Code to customize the social follow button

/* Webinsights Follow Buttons */
@import url("https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css");

.web-insights {
    text-align: center;
    display: table;
    border: 1px solid #ddd;
    padding: 10px 10px 5px;
    border-radius: 10px;
		width:100%;
	margin:0;
	
}

.web-insights .fttl {
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight:600;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
	color:black;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
	padding-bottom:12px;
}

.web-insights .ffttl {
   font-size: 16px;
   
	letter-spacing: 0.5px;
	color:black;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
	padding-bottom:15px;
	margin-top:-15px;

}

.web-insights ul{
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0px;
	margin-left:15px;
}
.web-insights li {
    float: left;
    list-style: none;
    font-size: 20px;
    text-align: center;
    margin-right:8px;
}
.web-insights li a i {
    background-color: #f1f1f1;
    color: #fff;
    border-radius: 100%;
    height: 40px;
    width: 40px;
    line-height: 43px !important;
}
.web-insights li a i:hover{
    opacity: 0.8;
}
.web-insights li a i.fa.fa-facebook {
    background-color: #3b5997;
}
.web-insights li a i.fa.fa-whatsapp {
    background-color: #25D366;
}
.web-insights li a i.fa.fa-instagram {
    background-color: #3e729a;
}
.web-insights li a i.fa.fa-paper-plane {
    background-color: #1DA1F2;
}
.web-insights li a i.fa.fa-youtube-play {
    background-color: #c42f2b;
}
.web-insights li a i.fa.fa-twitter {
    background-color: #57aced;
}
.web-insights li a i.fa.fa-pinterest-p {
    background-color: #cb2026;
}

/* End of Webinsights Follow Buttons */