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Improve author link flexibility

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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 #1581
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Michael Rose
2018-09-10 15:05:07 -04:00
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@@ -525,68 +525,36 @@ defaults:
**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.
```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"
```
**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.
**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;
}
@@ -595,12 +563,6 @@ Simply add a `color` declaration and the corresponding hex code.
![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`: