How do I add custom social links in chirpy?

[iSpeakNerd]

Checklist

• I have read and accepted the contributing guidelines.

How did you create the site?

Generated from chirpy-starter

Description

Would like to add custom social links with icons in the sidebar footer and author on posts.

Operations you have already tried

I found a few jekyll references but most are for the default theme Minima rather than Chirpy specifically.

• https://old.reddit.com/r/Jekyll/comments/1co7fke/deleted_by_user/
• this discussion is specifically for icons Custom (non Font Awesome) icons for `contact.yml` #1763
• https://blog.jakelee.co.uk/adding-new-social-media-link-to-minima/

The blog post references footer.html and social.html neither of which are in chirpy starter. I see social: section of _config.yml for adding links (which doesn't seem to change the sidebar footer?) but how do i add the svg for the links in the footer and authorship as well as associate them to the correct url?

Anything else?

my current socials settings in _config.yml

social:
  # Change to your full name.
  # It will be displayed as the default author of the posts and the copyright owner in the Footer
  name: iSpeakNerd
  # email: # change to your email address
  links:
    # The first element serves as the copyright owner's link
    - https://twitter.com/ispeak_nerd # change to your Twitter homepage
    - https://github.com/ispeaknerd # change to your GitHub homepage
    - https://warpcast.com/ispeaknerd # change to your Warpcast homepage
    # Uncomment below to add more social links
    # - https://www.facebook.com/username
    - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ispeaknerd
    - https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth

[SoumyaK4]

You can add them in _data/contact.yml for sidebar social links.

For modifying footer look in _includes/footer.html

[iSpeakNerd]

thanks for replying! I don't have an _includes folder so I should just create it and the footer.html file within?