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# How To Add Your Own Links To Social Platforms
- URL: https://gothru.co/docs/how-to-add-your-own-links-to-social-platforms/
- Published: 2022-02-23T07:30:12.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-23T07:30:12.000Z
- Description: In this tutorial, you will learn how to add your own social platform link to the control bar as described in the steps below.
- Author: Syafriko Yuliusman
- Tags: Control Bar

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add your own social platform link to the control bar as described in the steps below.

1\. Click on the “+” button to open the Plugin Manager for Hotspots, Menus, Maps, Control Center, and Other. Then select the Control Bar.

![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ve1B2pUUZLJrto1CBsGGo4RE1wXo6JSlNI20rndeZIAya5y_MfXDhSk82JDW2Aq2s4fKKrzl7O4TO2UN8AgrI4G2ceojXG-0zHRO4dGACCPqwKhi7zCOa6q4sIi5giLfGarusoXJ)

2\. Go to Control Settings on the right panel (Plugin Manager > Control Bar) or via Active Plugin (Active Plugins > Control Bar).

![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/PDIlr32UuRgAdKQxY-5iazWVwlBExq0oBrPGBPnWaAiDaZSxVIz0qBcw7mE8oO_xivDVdPPSTBt5FXPfFrqU2mIYSimgSoK5RipVO4uKMipeFMO7kUeSmzNk0kUwFR2aXb89hAOo)

3\. Navigate to **content>button** under the control settings. Then add a new button.

![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dDJJHnn8ZktGfb3eJrS-E3UgA_ykEU2Zr3rtUG5iYv_Ji46w-MDCbbFV-2LI21NzHy4WtcSoowEx2geucXzydom9EYm3qqSNGqLSxr4QvXmGA6bWQZH0gTgmiFOW_eWmpxGovUSY)

4\. On the new custom button section, you can change responsive, icon, tooltip and URL.

![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/96IC6rel65KiMJ4sEN3D6RGI8Qd7uc9cBVaB-2RDSroUTmkLhAxmPxMOIANuMBsu6cPmZd6AGi4AGBXk3lrXDmJTu7iXyvIcMtSFvRmBLHZGPmW-TALDSq2336471TImMqrTaWuH)

5\. Click on the “Icon symbol” to change the button\`s icon. There are more than 3000 icon symbols available, you can simply search and select the best icon that fits your control bar.

![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1dBeVhQiHrLrrWRZDmlgRO1udbQUjJDz9N5-TvRpD0Mg_bSOQ4-ws97FB5RwWH_U7wnWGTs6XYIp4lnxeepT7WoKFStiaYLWN3oWZnzN7G6UHPrllnxqg7wMhKP30h2_crGEbg98)

6\. Enter the text for the tooltip using the text field as shown in the example.

![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/X8WGV-75T6q_GcXiSTlJ2FW-rknRasGmY1FRQftQ1_qmNCZVT0NFj5Qoltbe9hArnbMLz3J4emzIiJ5fo2F8-UHxL5vd8p8IeU39tSTRfS-BhB2vkOZxw260yvTe8FHfzz90WbgM)

7\. Enter the URL you want to connect to the button in the example below the button will connect to Whatsapp chat. For whatsapp Use **https://wa.me/<number>** where the <number> is a full phone number in international format. Omit any brackets, dashes, plus signs, and leading zeros when adding the phone number in international format.

![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qp_1m7OwTIZrkReg9l06mKvLramMaW4hTmbFKlRmoVMxB2-4fm3CM1tOiUb8IsZJtFOifhH2z7g3G3325MmnzbQanuqoVcFXnDq7cFa_QYew4PLgZdje5xMDbDTuJWPvpqwCnph2)

8\. Overlay will add the button to the control bar and it automatically connects to the URL you enter.

![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/uAN_c0yt5bMl7rw3u0NYbtPsWVwgoJRh5b2kne-Jofmdr4lPMWhhptkgEjgaa9eq3-crSZx7wvBczTfge9zWYDvUZxygJyFZvfmQJJN8Y3DMJQP2zCxj6rea4GLpxWQCbVO4i_FR)

9\. Now try it.

![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/WsE2Zlds_9VRj8GPpEczY3UazeAkj_NO_JXycBee5zUfXUdHgGVOGdBLuoFJJR8d-COhN4lh0yOKPbWcAYioeQN74OCfKBHH2o2OBJhbXxJZTrby9FzK7s0n6SvMwRNdeSiizzcC)