Getting a new social icon in github pages with jekyll

Question

I'm building a webpage with jekyll and github pages. I would like to link to my google scholar profile in the same way I link to my github, with an icon at the bottom of the page.

I found out that this can be handled in _includes/social.html. However, I don't see any icon for scholar google. How can I get it into the page?

Answer 1

You can easily do it with Academicons.

1. Install the Academicons icons and CSS files on your server.
2. Add the academicons.css stylesheet into the page header:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/path/to/folder/css/academicons.min.css"/>

3. Add the icon to your page '_includes/social.html':

<i class="ai ai-google-scholar"></i>