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Deprecate social networking links in `_config.yml` in favor or new `author.links` array for any link and in any order. All of Font Awesome's icons are available for use.

```
author:
  links:
    - label: "Your Website"
      icon: "fas fa-fw fa-link"
      url: "https://your-site.com"
    - label: "Twitter"
      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
      url: "https://twitter.com/username"
    - label: "GitHub"
      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-github"
      url: "https://github.com/username"
    - label: "Instagram"
      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-instagram"
      url: "https://instagram.com/username"
```

Fixes mmistakes#1581
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44 changes: 19 additions & 25 deletions _config.yml
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bio : "I am an amazing person."
location : "Somewhere"
email :
uri :
home : # null (default), "absolute or relative url to link to author home"
bitbucket :
codepen :
dribbble :
flickr :
facebook :
foursquare :
github :
gitlab :
google_plus :
keybase :
instagram :
lastfm :
linkedin : # "john-doe-12345678" (the last part of your profile url, e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-doe-12345678)
pinterest :
soundcloud :
stackoverflow : # "123456/username" (the last part of your profile url, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/users/123456/username)
steam : # "steamId" (the last part of your profile url, e.g. https://steamcommunity.com/id/steamId/)
tumblr :
twitter :
vine :
weibo :
xing :
youtube : # "https://youtube.com/c/MichaelRoseDesign"
links:
- label: "Email"
icon: "fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"
# url: mailto:your.name@email.com
- label: "Website"
icon: "fas fa-fw fa-link"
# url: "https://your-website.com"
- label: "Twitter"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
# url: "https://twitter.com/"
- label: "Facebook"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-facebook-square"
# url: "https://facebook.com/"
- label: "GitHub"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-github"
# url: "https://github.com/"
- label: "Instagram"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-instagram"
# url: "https://instagram.com/"


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</li>
{% endif %}

{% if author.links %}
{% for link in author.links %}
{% if link.label and link.url %}
<li><a href="{{ link.url }}"><i class="{{ link.icon | default: 'fas fa-link' }}" aria-hidden="true"></i> {{ link.label }}</a></li>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}

{% if author.uri %}
<li>
<a href="{{ author.uri }}" itemprop="url">
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avatar : "/assets/images/michael-rose.jpg"
bio : "Just another boring, tattooed, time traveling, designer."
location : "Buffalo, NY"
email :
uri : "https://mademistakes.com"
home : "https://mademistakes.com"
bitbucket :
codepen :
dribbble :
flickr :
facebook : *facebook
foursquare :
github : "mmistakes"
gitlab :
google_plus :
keybase :
instagram : "mmistakes"
lastfm :
linkedin :
pinterest :
soundcloud :
stackoverflow : # https://stackoverflow.com/users/123456/username
steam :
tumblr :
twitter : *twitter
vine :
weibo :
xing :
youtube :
links:
- label: "Made Mistakes"
icon: "fas fa-fw fa-link"
url: "https://mademistakes.com"
- label: "Twitter"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
url: "https://twitter.com/mmistakes"
- label: "GitHub"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-github"
url: "https://github.com/mmistakes"
- label: "Instagram"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-instagram"
url: "https://instagram.com/mmistakes"


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```yaml
author:
name : "Your Name"
avatar : "/assets/images/bio-photo.jpg"
bio : "My awesome biography constrained to a sentence or two goes here."
email : # optional
uri : "http://your-site.com"
home : # null (default), "absolute or relative url to link to author home"
name : "Your Name"
avatar : "/assets/images/bio-photo.jpg"
bio : "My awesome biography constrained to a sentence or two goes here."
location : "Somewhere, USA"
```

Social media links are all optional, include the ones you want visible. In most cases you just need to add the username. If you're unsure double check `_includes/author-profile.html` to see how the URL is constructed.
Author links are all optional, include the ones you want visible under the `author.links` array.

To add social media links not included with the theme or customize the author sidebar further, read the full [layout documentation]({{ "/docs/layouts/#author-profile" | relative_url }}).
| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| **label** | Link label (e.g. `"Twitter"`) |
| **icon** | [Font Awesome icon](https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery) classes (e.g. `"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"`) |
| **url** | Link URL (e.g. `"https://twitter.com/mmistakes"`) |

```yaml
author:
name: "Your Name"
avatar: "/assets/images/bio-photo.jpg"
bio: "I am an amazing person."
location: "Somewhere"
links:
- label: "Made Mistakes"
icon: "fas fa-fw fa-link"
url: "https://mademistakes.com"
- label: "Twitter"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
url: "https://twitter.com/mmistakes"
- label: "GitHub"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-github"
url: "https://github.com/mmistakes"
- label: "Instagram"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-instagram"
url: "https://instagram.com/mmistakes"
```

To customize the author sidebar, read the full [layout documentation]({{ "/docs/layouts/#author-profile" | relative_url }}).

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title: "Authors"
permalink: /docs/authors/
excerpt: "Instructions and settings for working with multiple site authors."
last_modified_at: 2016-11-03T10:55:15-04:00
last_modified_at: 2018-09-10T12:33:24-04:00
---

Sites that may have content authored from various individuals can be accommodated by using [data files](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/datafiles/).

To assign an author to a post or page that is different from the site author specified in `_config.yml`:

**Step 1.** Create `_data/authors.yml` and add authors using the following format. Any variables found under `author:` in `_config.yml` can be used (e.g. `name`, `avatar`, `uri`, social media profiles, etc.).
**Step 1.** Create `_data/authors.yml` and add authors using the following format. Any variables found under `author:` in `_config.yml` can be used (e.g. `name`, `bio`, `avatar`, author `links`, etc.).

```yaml
# /_data/authors.yml

Billy Rick:
name: "Billy Rick"
uri: "http://thewhip.com"
email: "billy@rick.com"
bio: "What do you want, jewels? I am a very extravagant man."
avatar: "/assets/images/bio-photo-2.jpg"
twitter: "extravagantman"
name : "Billy Rick"
bio : "What do you want, jewels? I am a very extravagant man."
avatar : "/assets/images/bio-photo-2.jpg"
links:
- label: "Email"
icon: "fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"
url: "mailto:billyrick@rick.com"
- label: "Website"
icon: "fas fa-fw fa-link"
url: "https://thewhip.com"
- label: "Twitter"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
url: "https://twitter.com/extravagantman"

Cornelius Fiddlebone:
name: "Cornelius Fiddlebone"
email: "cornelius@thewhip.com"
bio: "I ordered what?"
avatar: "/assets/images/bio-photo.jpg"
twitter: "rhymeswithsackit"
name : "Cornelius Fiddlebone"
bio : "I ordered what?"
avatar : "/assets/images/bio-photo.jpg"
links:
- label: "Email"
icon: "fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"
url: "mailto:cornelius@thewhip.com"
- label: "Twitter"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
url: "https://twitter.com/rhymeswithsackit"
```

**Step 2.** Assign one of the authors in `authors.yml` to a post or page you wish to override the `site.author` with.
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**Note:** To disable the author sidebar profile for a specific post or page, add `author_profile: false` to the YAML Front Matter instead.
{: .notice--warning}

The theme comes pre-built with a selection of links for the most common social media networks. These are all optional and can be [assigned in `_config.yml`]({{ "/docs/configuration/" | relative_url }}).
To assign more author links, add to the `author.links` array in [`_config.yml`]({{ "/docs/configuration/" | relative_url }}) link so. Any of [Font Awesome's icons](https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery) are available for use.

To add more links you'll need to crack open [`_includes/author-profile-custom-links.html`](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/blob/master/_includes/author-profile-custom-links.html) and add the appropriate `<li>` markup shown below.

**Please note:** Links added here will appear after the ones in [`_includes/author-profile.html`](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/blob/master/_includes/author-profile.html). If you'd like to change the order of appearance you'll need to edit that file directly.
```yaml
author:
name: "Your Name"
avatar: "/assets/images/bio-photo.jpg"
bio: "I am an amazing person."
location: "Somewhere"
links:
- label: "Made Mistakes"
icon: "fas fa-fw fa-link"
url: "https://mademistakes.com"
- label: "Twitter"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
url: "https://twitter.com/mmistakes"
- label: "GitHub"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-github"
url: "https://github.com/mmistakes"
- label: "Instagram"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-instagram"
url: "https://instagram.com/mmistakes"
```

**Note:** Depending on the icon and theme skin used, colors may not be used. Popular social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, etc. have the appropriate brand color set in CSS. To change or add missing colors edit [`_utilities.scss`](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/blob/master/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_utilities.scss) in `<site root>/_sass/minimal-mistakes/`.
{: .notice--info}

#### Social network link example

```html
<li>
<a href="https://whatever-social-network.com/username">
<i class="fab fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i> Awesome Social Network
</a>
</li>
```

To add a new link you'll need three things:

1. Destination URL
2. [Font Awesome icon](https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery) (`fa-` class)
3. Label for the link

It's up to you if you want to wrap it in a `{% raw %}{% if %} ... {% endif %}{% endraw %}`conditional and add a variable to `_config.yml`. If you don't plan to change it then hard-coding the string is perfectly acceptable.

Let's run through how you'd add a new link that points to a Reddit profile. Starting with the three things from above:

1. `https://www.reddit.com/user/username`
2. [`fa-reddit`](http://fontawesome.io/icon/reddit/)
3. `Reddit`

And plug them into the appropriate locations:

```html
<li>
<a href="[1]">
<i class="fab fa-fw [2]" aria-hidden="true"></i> [3]
</a>
</li>
```

To end up with:

```html
<li>
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/username">
<i class="fab fa-fw fa-reddit" aria-hidden="true"></i> Reddit
</a>
</li>
```

![Reddit link in author profile]({{ "/assets/images/mm-author-profile-reddit-gs.png" | relative_url }})

To add a touch of color to the default black (`#000`) icon a few more steps are necessary.

Start by copying [`_utilities.scss`](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/blob/master/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_utilities.scss) `<site root>/_sass`. Open it up to the icon section (it's near the bottom) and nest a new class beneath `.social-icons` that matches the one used to declare the Font Awesome icon. In our case `.fa-reddit`.

Simply add a `color` declaration and the corresponding hex code.
For example, to color a Reddit icon, simply add a `color` declaration and the corresponding hex code like so:

```scss
.social-icons {

.fa-reddit {
color: #ff4500;
}
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![Reddit link in author profile with color]({{ "/assets/images/mm-author-profile-reddit-color.png" | relative_url }})

**ProTip:** For bonus points you can add it as a Sass `$variable` that you set in [`_variables.scss`](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/blob/master/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_variables.scss) like the other ["brand" colors](http://brandcolors.net/). You'll need to add this file to `/_sass/` as well if you're using the Ruby Gem version of the theme.
{: .notice--info}

**Please please please** don't submit [pull requests]({{ "/docs/contributing/" | relative_url }}) adding in support for "missing" social media links. I'm trying to keep things down to the minimum (hence the theme's name) and have no interest in merging such PRs :expressionless:.
{: .notice--warning}

### Custom Sidebar Content

Blocks of content can be added by using the following under `sidebar`:
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title: "Layout: Author Override"
author: Billy Rick
excerpt: "A post to test author overrides using a data file."
last_modified_at: 2018-09-10T12:32:27-04:00
---

Sites that may have content authored from various individuals can be accommodated by using [data files](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/datafiles/).

To attribute an author to a post or page that is different from the site author specified in `_config.yml`:

**Step 1.** Create `_data/authors.yml` and add authors using the following format. Anything variables found under `author` in `_config.yml` can be used (e.g. `name`, `avatar`, `uri`, social media profiles, etc.).
**Step 1.** Create `_data/authors.yml` and add authors using the following format. Anything variables found under `author` in `_config.yml` can be used (e.g. `name`, `bio`, `avatar`, author `links`, etc.).

```yaml
# /_data/authors.yml

Billy Rick:
name: "Billy Rick"
uri: "http://thewhip.com"
email: "billy@rick.com"
bio: "What do you want, jewels? I am a very extravagant man."
avatar: "/assets/images/bio-photo-2.jpg"
twitter: "extravagantman"
name : "Billy Rick"
bio : "What do you want, jewels? I am a very extravagant man."
avatar : "/assets/images/bio-photo-2.jpg"
links:
- label: "Email"
icon: "fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"
url: "mailto:billyrick@rick.com"
- label: "Website"
icon: "fas fa-fw fa-link"
url: "https://thewhip.com"
- label: "Twitter"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
url: "https://twitter.com/extravagantman"

Cornelius Fiddlebone:
name: "Cornelius Fiddlebone"
email: "cornelius@thewhip.com"
bio: "I ordered what?"
avatar: "/assets/images/bio-photo.jpg"
twitter: "rhymeswithsackit"
name : "Cornelius Fiddlebone"
bio : "I ordered what?"
avatar : "/assets/images/bio-photo.jpg"
links:
- label: "Email"
icon: "fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"
url: "mailto:cornelius@thewhip.com"
- label: "Twitter"
icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
url: "https://twitter.com/rhymeswithsackit"
```

**Step 2.** Assign one of the authors in `authors.yml` to a post or page you wish to override the `site.author` with.
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