alternate social icons, SSL/non-SSL mixed errors w/social and shoppingcart

[jeomiland+ 2]

In post 34871-sharebar-issues Danny suggests one can use any of the icons in font-awsome for social share icons. What's the best way to use other images?  Client asked me to implement the icons at http://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/16-best-free-social-media-icon-sets-for-wordpress/  specifically #20 "20 Social Media Icons". Have downloaded the zip file containing those icons but where/how get them to show up on the site?

So I am referring to both the icons to send visitors to the site owner social properties AND shar icons so people can Like, share ect.

Upon further research, I see a discussion on problems with using social icons on SSL (https://...) sites since a warning message comes up complaining about mixed SSL and non-SSL content on the page? Since this site is a shoppingcart site, using Woocommerce, this could be a problem. What's the current wisdom on dealing with this?  Also, I read a while ago there can be a performance hit if one makes their whole site SSL, so since Wordpress and themes adds significant overhead, what's the current wisdom on this issue?  SSL for all pages or just for shoppingcart checkout/account info pages?

Thanks

site: http://verdanthomeproducts.com
 

[Simon 248]

SSL does not add overhead, in fact google ranks sites higher that are SSL.

 

[jeomiland+ 2]

Hi Simon

Thanks so much for your quick reply! What say you about the "mixed secure/non-secure types on page" error msg? This was discussed in "How do I get Sharebar social media icons to be HTTPS secure?" March 16, 2014 and James B said "the url's for the buttons in that section is hardcoded..." has this been resolved now in the latest DMS?  Have not yet purchased the Rapid SSL and installed it but will have to pronto.

Thanks

[Simon 248]

That old post refers to DMS1.

The sharebar in DMS2 gets its data from facebook or wherever using protocol relative urls //facebool.com for example, which works in ssl and non-ssl