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social_icon.php

<?php
// Get social icon class
function get_social_icon_class($social_url) {
    if (strpos($social_url, 'facebook') !== false) {
        $icon_class = 'fab fa-facebook-f';
    } elseif (strpos($social_url, 'instagram') !== false) {
        $icon_class = 'fab fa-instagram';
    } elseif (strpos($social_url, 'twitter') !== false) {
        $icon_class = 'fab fa-twitter';
    } elseif (strpos($social_url, 'etsy') !== false) {
        $icon_class = 'fab fa-etsy';
    }
    return $icon_class;
}
?>

Social icons

Pass in a URL and it will loop through looking for social channel names and then return the relevant icon.

This is set-up to work with Font Awesome.

Could, obviously, be expanded to include many more icon classes.