Automattic / Automattic/wp-calypso
Feature Request: Social Links Block - Add custom social icon option
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Description
### What
Social Links Block is limited to preset icons. What about adding an n+1 option to add a custom icon?
### Why
1- I just got a user in chat asking about adding an IMDB icon to the block. 34270343-hc
2- We have an open request to add a number of icons to the preset.
We can't include all icons but making it open-ended could add value to the block.
### How
We could add it to the end of the preset icon suggestions to avoid its overuse.
We could also rethink how to icon-search bar works: instead of searching for the icon first then having to add the link, we could just ask for the link and it will either auto-select the icon or offer the option to upload a new one.
Connecting this with the open request below makes sense:
- https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/39053
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing the Social Links Block's preset icon suggestions and icon-search bar, then read the linked issue #39053 for related icon requests. Define whether the completed work adds a custom icon option, changes link-based icon selection, or both, and verify that the chosen behavior supports icons such as IMDB without relying only on presets.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- react, typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100