Update on January 12, 2017
The tutorial no longer works with the latest version of the plugin.
Follow the pages in the wiki here: https://github.com/copyblogger/simple-social-icons/wiki
Simple Social Icons is a free WordPress plugin that adds a widget for displaying social networks (Twitter, Facebook etc.) icons. Widget includes useful options for setting icon size, border radius, alignment, font and background colors.
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Filters were added in version 1.0.6 using which we can replace the default icons with custom icons, make the icons appear in our desired order (affects both front end and back end in the widget), add new social icons that are not present in the plugin, remove social unneeded networks and finally replace the CSS with a custom .css file.
For reordering, adding, removing and/or replacing icons the following code blocks will be referenced:
