Disabling / Removing Twitter link on Pressbooks sites

[kylemackie]

Feature Description

Is there a way to get rid of the Twitter icon (and share to Twitter functionality on Pressbooks?

Feature Use Case

a) a prof I'm working with doesn't want to have their work shared to Twitter,
b) it's not Twitter anymore, and
c) the platform ain't what it used to be and maybe we don't want to align ourselves with it.

Other Notes

[cmurtagh]

Thank you @kylemackie, we're looking into this.

[cmurtagh]

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[jcurtis-pressbooks]

Tech Team: This type of issue needs input from the Marketing Team before we implement it. We get a lot of regular social media mentions on X because of that link. A lot of people still choose to use the X platform and authors may appreciate the visibility their books get when readers share using that social media link. Our preferred solution would be 1) Change out the outdated Twitter icon for the current X icon, and 2) Allow book admins to choose whether they want the icon to appear in their book.

Please reach out to the Marketing Team with any questions about this item.

[cmurtagh]

1. Change out the outdated Twitter icon for the current X icon, and

Noted. Thank you.

2. Allow book admins to choose whether they want the icon to appear in their book.

We had discussed this, and this is what we had assumed as well.

Please reach out to the Marketing Team with any questions about this item.

We will talk with them before implementing any changes.

[SteelWagstaff]

@tw77 I believe this is ready for testing. Feel free to close as you see fit?

[tw77]

Just tested this out on dev. I notice the default Social Media Options are removed from the landing pages of existing dev network books until I save changes in a book's Appearance > Theme Options > Web Options page. Upon saving, the options appear on the landing page for that particular book. The options themselves work as expected, but that extra step (options not appearing anymore until changes are manually saved) is unexpected.

@arzola is there any way we'd be able to release this change while including the default Social Media Options on book landing pages from the get go, rather than requiring this step for each book, or would that require modifying the code?