How to STOP primary menu from automatically changing links to icons?

Hi Aaron-

Thanks for reaching out, and thanks for using the Venetian WordPress theme.

You can accomplish this by using a WordPress filter to change which links will be turned into an icon. If you’re not creating a Child Theme for Venetian, I recommend using a free plugin like Code Snippets to accomplish this.

Here’s a simple example of a code snippet you can use to completely disable YouTube links from being changed into icons:

function bgsc_remove_social_icon($networks){
    unset($networks['youtube.com']);
    return $networks;
}
add_filter('boldgrid_social_icon_networks' , 'bgsc_remove_social_icon');

I noticed, however, that you have two YouTube links in your menu. I’m not entirely certain how you created the smaller icon, it doesn’t look like that’s being provided by the theme itself. If the above snippet removes both of the icons, you can try making the search term more specific.

For your specific case, the link you don’t want to be an icon has youtube.com/channel in the URL, and the one you do want to be an icon has youtube.com/watch in the URL. For that specific case, you could use a snippet like this:

function bgsc_remove_social_icon($networks){
    $networks['youtube.com/watch'] = $networks['youtube.com']; 
    unset($networks['youtube.com']);
    return $networks;
}
add_filter('boldgrid_social_icon_networks' , 'bgsc_remove_social_icon');