Setting up your site with social media integration is easier than you might think. Once you are ready to enable social media on your site, follow these steps to secure the information you need to get it configured.
How to find your profile ID
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Visit Facebook and log in with your credentials.
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Navigate to the profile you wish to feature on your Radius website. Sometimes this will be your personal profile and sometimes this will be the profile of a page you manage for a business or organization.
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Copy the string of letters and/or numbers after "facebook.com/" in the URL.
It will look like: "http://facebook.com/myProfileName". You want the "myProfileName" part.
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Visit Twitter and log in with your credentials.
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Click the "Me" tab.
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Copy the string of letters and/or numbers after "twitter.com/" in the URL.
It will look like: "https://twitter.com/myProfileName". You want the "myProfileName" part of the address.
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Visit Pinterest and log in with your credentials.
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Navigate to your profile page.
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Copy the string of letters and/or numbers after "pinterest.com/" in the URL.
It will look like: "https://pinterest.com/myProfileName". You want the myProfileName part.
Google+
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Visit Google+ and login with your credentials.
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Click the "Profile" tab.
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Copy the string of numeric digits before "/posts" in the URL.
It will look like: "http://plus.google.com/117213825898322144984/posts". You want the "117213825898322144984" part of the address.
YouTube
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Visit YouTube and log in with your credentials. (You will be taken to your Google account login page)
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Visit YouTube.
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Select My Channel.
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Copy the string of letters and/or numbers after the "https://www.youtube.com/" in the URL text box such as "Channel/UCgE_rTzEilXGDMrZktupHOQ" as shown below:
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Visit LinkedIn and log in with your credentials.
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Click on Profile.
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Beneath your profile photo, you will see a URL. You would select the string of letters and/or numbers after “www.linkedin.com/“.
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Visit Instagram and log in with your credentials.
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Simply copy your Instagram username after the “www.instagram.com/“ in the URL.
Flickr
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Visit Flickr and log in with your credentials.
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Click on the You tab.
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Copy and paste the string of characters after “/photos/“