# Can't get social.html from minima theme to work

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/cant-get-social-html-from-minima-theme-to-work/1955>\
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**Created:** [July 9, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/cant-get-social-html-from-minima-theme-to-work/1955 "2018-07-09T15:26:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![truna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@truna](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/truna)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/cant-get-social-html-from-minima-theme-to-work/1955/1 "2018-07-09T15:26:50Z")

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For demonstration purposes I’ve created a brand new project with `jekyll new .`

It creates a new project with the minima theme.

in the `includes/footer.html` there is:

```
{%- include social.html -%}

```

in the `social.html` there is:

```
{%- if site.github_username -%}<li><a href="https://github.com/{{ site.github_username| cgi_escape | escape }}"><svg class="svg-icon"><use xlink:href="{{ '/assets/minima-social-icons.svg#github' | relative_url }}"></use></svg> <span class="username">{{ site.github_username| escape }}</span></a></li>{%- endif -%}
{%- if site.twitter_username -%}<li><a href="https://www.twitter.com/{{ site.twitter_username| cgi_escape | escape }}"><svg class="svg-icon"><use xlink:href="{{ '/assets/minima-social-icons.svg#twitter' | relative_url }}"></use></svg> <span class="username">{{ site.twitter_username| escape }}</span></a></li>{%- endif -%}

```

In the `_config.yml` there is:

```
twitter_username: jekyllrb
github_username: jekyll

```

However, the github and twitter links don’t show up in the footer when using `bundle exec jekyll serve`

- minima (2.5.0)  
Summary: A beautiful, minimal theme for Jekyll.  
Homepage: [https://github.com/jekyll/minima](https://github.com/jekyll/minima)  
Path: /home/user/.gem/gems/minima-2.5.0

- jekyll (3.8.3)  
Summary: A simple, blog aware, static site generator.  
Homepage: [https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll)  
Path: /home/user/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/jekyll-3.8.3