A UseClick bio page has one theme: one default icon mode and one default button color, applied to every link and block automatically the moment you add it. That's the fast path to a page that looks consistent without any per-link setup.
Underneath that default sits a second, more granular layer. Any individual link can override its own icon mode or its own button color from its Edit Bio Link modal, independent of every other link on the page. Nothing else on the page moves or restyles when you do.
This page covers that per-link layer specifically: the four icon modes and how overrides work, button color overrides, the separate social icon row and its searchable platform picker, and how links and content blocks share one ordered list. For the page-wide theme itself, see the link at the bottom of this page.
The Two-Layer Model: Page Default, Link Override
Every link starts on the page default. That default lives in your bio page's theme settings, one icon mode and one button color, and it applies automatically to every link and block as you add it. Turning on an override doesn't touch a global setting; it's set per link, from that link's own edit screen.
Page-wide default
Set once in your bio page's theme: one icon mode (favicon, thumbnail, preview card, or text only) and one button color, inherited by every link automatically as you add it.
Per-link override
Open a link's Edit Bio Link modal and set its own icon mode or button color there. The change applies to that link only; every other link keeps following the page default.
Four Icon Modes, Set Per Link
The icon mode controls how much visual weight a link carries in the list. There are four modes to choose from, set page-wide as the default and swappable on any individual link:
Favicon
The destination site's own favicon, small and neutral. Good for utility links, like documentation or terms pages, where you don't want the icon competing for attention.
Thumbnail
A small square image pulled from the destination page. Adds a visual cue without taking over the button, a middle ground between favicon and preview card.
Preview card
A full card built from the destination's Open Graph title and image, the largest and most visually prominent mode. Best reserved for the one or two links you most want visitors to notice first.
Text only
No image at all, just the link label. Loads fastest and keeps a long list of links visually calm and dense.
Set the mode once as the page default, then override individual links that need to stand out or blend in differently from the rest.
Button Color, Per Link
Button color follows the same two-layer pattern as the icon. The page theme sets one button color for every link; a per-link override breaks a single button out of that color without touching the theme or any other link.
Theme default
Every link renders in your page theme's button color until you say otherwise, so a page stays visually consistent with zero per-link setup.
Single-link override
Set a different button color on one link from its Edit Bio Link modal. Only that button changes color; the rest of the page keeps the theme color exactly as it was.
A common case: every link on a page runs on the theme's default color except one, a limited-time offer or the highest-priority link, which gets its own color so it visually separates from the rest of the list without a page-wide redesign.
The Social Icon Row
Social links live in a row of their own, separate from the main link list, built from a searchable platform picker instead of manual icon and color entry.
A separate row
The social icon row is its own element on the page, not part of the main link list. Adding, removing, or reordering social icons never touches the order of your links or content blocks.
Searchable platform picker
Add a platform by searching for it by name. Its icon and color come from the picker automatically, there's no manual icon upload or hex code entry for social links.
Brand icon, page-colored button
Each platform keeps its own brand icon and brand color inside the button, an Instagram icon still reads as Instagram. The circular button housing it is styled with your page's button color, so the row stays visually tied to the rest of the page instead of turning into a strip of unrelated brand colors.
Where Ordering Fits In
Links and content blocks share one ordered list, moved by drag and drop or the up and down arrow buttons. The social icon row sits outside that list entirely: reordering your links and blocks never moves your social icons, and reordering your social icons never moves a link.
For the full mechanics of that shared list, the block types you can mix in, and both ways to reorder it, see Content Blocks.
Example: Setting One Link Apart
A page runs on the Thumbnail icon mode and a single theme color as its page defaults, applied automatically to every link added. To promote one time-limited link, its owner opens that link's Edit Bio Link modal and changes just its icon mode to Preview Card and its button color to one that isn't used anywhere else on the page.
- • Page default: Thumbnail icon mode and the theme's button color, applied to every link automatically
- • One link overridden: Preview Card icon mode pulled from that page's Open Graph image, plus a button color unique to that link
- • Social row unaffected: Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube icons keep their own brand colors inside page-colored buttons, untouched by either override
- • Reordering later: dragging the overridden link to the top of the list carries its icon mode and color with it, overrides are a property of the link, not its position
The override lives on the link itself, not on a slot in the layout, so moving links around, adding new ones, or changing the page theme later never resets it.
Why Per-Link Control Matters
Most bio-page themes are all-or-nothing: change the theme and every link changes with it. Per-link overrides add a layer underneath that, so a page can stay consistent by default and still call out the one link that matters most, without a full redesign.
Consistency without extra setup
Every link you add inherits the page default automatically. A page with ten links styled identically takes the same setup as a page with one.
Distinction without a redesign
Standing out a single link, a launch, a sale, a pinned announcement, is a two-field change on that one link, not a new theme applied to the whole page.
Overrides travel with the link
An override is a property of the link itself. Reorder it, and the override stays exactly as set; only changing it directly, on that link, changes it again.
Where This Fits
Per-link overrides sit on top of two other systems that shape a bio page.
For the full page-building picture, profile, layout, and how everything comes together, see Link in Bio.
The page-wide default that every link inherits, icon mode and button color included, comes from your bio page theme.
The shared ordered list, and the Header, Text, Divider, and Embed blocks you can mix into it, are covered in Content Blocks.
The Customization Loop
Four moves cover the entire pattern for styling an individual link.
Set the default
Choose a page-wide icon mode and button color in your theme settings; every new link inherits both automatically.
Add your links
Build the list; each link renders on the page default with no per-link setup required.
Override what should stand out
Open a link's Edit Bio Link modal to give it its own icon mode or button color.
Build the social row
Search the platform picker to add social icons in their own row, styled with your page's button color.