First you need to download the social icons from website. Make sure icons are free.
I created following steps to add the icons to wordpress site for non developers.
1. Upload the icon image(s) to your media library.
2. Add a “Text” widget to your sidebar and insert code similar to the following:
<a href=”http://twitter.com/wordpressapi”><img src=”http://wordpressapi.com/files/twitter_48x48.png” /></a>
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/wordpressapi”><img src=”http://wordpressapi.com/files/facebook_48x48.png” /></a>
<a href=”mailto:support@wordpressapi.com”><img src=”http://www.lancebledsoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/email_48x48.png” /></a>
<a href=”http://wordpressapi.com/feed/”><img src=”http://wordpressapi.com/files/rss_48x48.png” /></a>
Then just change the URLs so that they point to your icons and links. As you can see,
I have four icons in my sidebar (twitter, facebook, email, and rss).
