Fixed issue with icons not appearing in footer

layouts/partials/footer.html

@@ -1,18 +1,11 @@
-<div class="social-links">
-  {{- range $name, $path := .Site.Params.social }}
-    {{- if $path }}
-      {{- $realName := slicestr $name 2 }}
-      <a href="{{ $path | safeURL }}" class="iconfont icon-{{ $realName }}" title="{{ $realName }}"></a>
-    {{- end }}
-  {{- end }}
-  <a href="{{ .Site.RSSLink }}" type="application/rss+xml" class="iconfont icon-rss" title="rss"></a>
+<div class="icon-links">
+  {{ partial "social_links.html" . }} 
 </div>
 
 <div class="copyright">
   <span class="power-by">
     Powered by <a class="hexo-link" href="https://gohugo.io">Hugo</a>
   </span>
-
   <span class="copyright-year">
     {{- $current := now.Format "2006" }}
     &copy;
@@ -21,13 +14,27 @@
     {{ end }}
     {{- $current }}
     <span class="heart">
-      <i class="iconfont icon-heart"></i>
+      {{/* icon heart */}}
+      <i class="iconfont">
+        {{ partial "svg/heart.svg" }}
+      </i>
     </span>
-    <span class="author">{{if .Site.Copyright }}{{ .Site.Copyright | safeHTML }}{{ else }}{{ .Site.Author.name | safeHTML }}{{ end }}</span>
+    {{- if or .Site.Copyright .Site.Author.name -}}
+      <span class="author">
+        {{if .Site.Copyright }}{{ .Site.Copyright | safeHTML }}
+        {{ else }}{{ .Site.Author.name | safeHTML }}
+        {{ end }}
       </span>
     <span>
         <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work by <span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" property="cc:attributionName">Salar Rahmanian</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
     Please attribute properly and link back. <br/>
-    
     </span>
+    {{- end -}}
+  </span>
+
+  {{ if .Site.Params.customFooter }}
+    <span>
+      {{ .Site.Params.customFooter | safeHTML }}
+    </span>
+  {{ end }}
 </div>