=== Social Media SVG Icons ===
Contributors: tjtaylor
Donate link: https://simpleicons.org/
Tags: social media icons, menu icons, svg icons, icons shortcodes, add social media icons to wordpress
Requires at least: 2.8
Tested up to: 5.0.1
Requires PHP: 5.2.4
Stable tag: 2.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

An easy to use social media icons plugin to display SVG icons. Use these icons in your menus, widgets, posts, or pages.

== Description ==

Add social media icons to WordPress with easy to use icon shortcodes. Use these high quality SVG icons anywhere on your WordPress site, make them any size or color you want.

Visit [https://simpleicons.org](https://simpleicons.org) to view over 500+ available social media icons and popular brand icons. Use the shortcode [simple_icon] to display an icon or use #iconname# in your menu item title.


== How to use ==

Example:

`[simple_icon name="wordpress" color="purple"]`

Properties:

*	<strong>name</strong>
	The name of the social icon (search [https://simpleicons.org/](https://simpleicons.org) to find an icon).

*	<strong>color</strong> (optional)
	The color of the icon (example: #ffffff or white).
	<em>Default is pulled from the framework</em>

*	<strong>size</strong> (optional)
	The size of the icon
	<em>Default is 1.5rem</em>

*	<strong>class</strong> (optional)
	Add a custom CSS class to the icon.


== Notes ==

This plugin uses [http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/](http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/) to serve icons.

Use [GitHub](https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons) for social media or other icon requests, corrections and contributions.

Please post any issues under the support tab. If you use and like this plugin, please don’t forget to <strong>rate</strong> it! Additionally, if you would like to see more features for the plugin, please let me know.


== Contributors ==

[Simple Icon Contributors](https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/graphs/contributors)


== Screenshots ==

1. Use social media icons in menu titles
2. Use social media icons as shortcode in your content
3. Highlight shortcode and click on the link button to create svg icon links
4. Example of front end use.


== Installation ==

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload `simple-icons.zip` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Unzip the file
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
4. Use the shortcode [simple_icon] anywhere in your content, or use #example# in your menu item title


== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =
* Initial release

= 1.1.0 =
* Added json file and icon caching for performance

= 2.0 =
* Performance increase: rebuilt plugin to use cache transients on icons
* New admin interface for selecting icons and generating shortcode