How do I get social icons to display?

[clarelgibson]

I have added the following to Hugo.yaml:

socialIcons:
  - name: "github"
    url: "https://github.com/clarelgibson"
  - name: "linkedin"
    url: "https://linkedin.com/in/clarelgibson"

However, nothing happened. There are no social icons displaying on my site. What am I doing wrong?

[jasonbraganza]

hello @clarelgibson, would you try the names (github/linkedin) without the quotes? suggesting this, because this is how I have it in my config file. like below

    - name: github
      url: "https://github.com/jasonbraganza"

[clarelgibson]

Thank you for the suggestion. I managed to solve my issue with the following steps:

1. I moved the socialIcons code to sit within the params section of my hugo.yaml file. The instructions on the wiki were not clear that this needs to sit within params but looking at the source files for another site built with the PaperMod theme I saw that this was the case.
2. I enabled the profileMode variables within params so that my home page is now in profile mode, with the below code:

  profileMode:
    enabled: true
    title: "Clare Gibson"
    subtitle: "Data analyst, product owner, lifelong learner"
    imageUrl: "img/clare-01.png"
    imageWidth: 150
    imageHeight: 150

With the 2 updates above I now have the social icons displayed on my home page. It appears the social icons only work if you are using the Profile Mode, although this wasn't stated in the documentation as far as I could see.

[adityatelange]

The instructions on the wiki were not clear

yeah it's all my mistake, I didn't made wiki good enough

[jasonbraganza]

@clarelgibson aah, suggesting that slipped my mind completely!

@adityatelange, don’t stress so, old friend 🤗

[adityatelange]

although this wasn't stated in the documentation as far as I could see.

@jasonbraganza that person is entitled for spoon feeding and getting things easily from a FOSS project, overlooking the efforts it took even to document all the stuff.
I do believe papermod has much better docs than many hugo themes on github. I get such mails and comments and I don't really feel like helping anymore.

[clarelgibson]

that person is entitled for spoon feeding and getting things easily from a FOSS project, overlooking the efforts it took even to document all the stuff.

Are you referring to me here?

For what it's worth I am VERY impressed with the efforts that have gone into creating this theme and its documentation.