[Tex/LaTex] Adding medium profile in profile section

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I want to add my medium profile in the personal section in my resume. Given that this is my first time using TeX, is there any way to do this. As font awesome is supported, so I added these lines:

\newcommand{\mediumsymbol}{\famedium}
\newcommand{\medium}[1]{\printinfo{\mediumsymbol}{#1}}

But this is throwing error. Also, the links in personal section are not spaced equally. Is there any way to correct it?

\personalinfo{%

  \email{abc@gmail.com}
  \location{XYZ}
  \twitter{@abc}
  \linkedin{linkedin.com/in/abc}
   \github{github.com/abc}

EDIT: As pointed out in comments, I am providing a snippet of the file I am using on overleaf:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,ragged2e]{altacv}

%% AltaCV uses the fontawesome and academicon fonts
%% and packages.
%% See texdoc.net/pkg/fontawecome and http://texdoc.net/pkg/academicons for full list of symbols. You MUST compile with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX if you want to use academicons.

% Change the page layout if you need to
\geometry{left=2cm,right=10cm,marginparwidth=6.8cm,marginparsep=1.2cm,top=1.25cm,bottom=1.25cm}

% Change the font if you want to, depending on whether
% you're using pdflatex or xelatex/lualatex
\ifxetexorluatex
  % If using xelatex or lualatex:
  \setmainfont{Carlito}
\else
  % If using pdflatex:
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[default]{lato}
\fi

% Change the colours if you want to
\definecolor{VividPurple}{HTML}{000000}
\definecolor{SlateGrey}{HTML}{2E2E2E}
\definecolor{LightGrey}{HTML}{2E2E2E}
\colorlet{heading}{VividPurple}
\colorlet{accent}{VividPurple}
\colorlet{emphasis}{SlateGrey}
\colorlet{body}{LightGrey}

% Change the bullets for itemize and rating marker
% for \cvskill if you want to
\renewcommand{\itemmarker}{{\small\textbullet}}
\renewcommand{\ratingmarker}{\faCircle}

%% sample.bib contains your publications
\addbibresource{sample.bib}

\begin{document}
\name{abc}
\tagline{AAAA}
% Cropped to square from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer#/media/File:Marissa_Mayer_May_2014_(cropped).jpg, CC-BY 2.0
%\photo{3.3cm}{profile.jpg}
\personalinfo{%
  % Not all of these are required!
  % You can add your own with \printinfo{symbol}{detail}
  \email{abc@gmail.com}
%   \phone{000-00-0000}
%  \mailaddress{Address, Street, 00000 County}
  \location{loc}
  \medium{meidum.com/abc}
%  \twitter{@marissamayer}
  \linkedin{linkedin.com/in/abc}
   \github{github.com/abc} % I'm just making this up though.
%   \orcid{orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000} % Obviously making this up too. If you want to use this field (and also other academicons symbols), add "academicons" option to \documentclass{altacv}
}

Best Answer

Well, you did not tell us the error you got. Please always add the complete error message you got to help us to help you ...

Bases on your sadly not compilable code snippet (forces us to guess what you are doing, not a good starting point for helping you ...) I can guess that your line 

\newcommand{\mediumsymbol}{\famedium} % <===============================

throws the error that controll sequence famedium is undefined. Of course, because the correct command defined in fontawesome is \faMedium (see big letter M):

\newcommand{\mediumsymbol}{\faMedium} % <===============================

I added missing code to your code snippet to get it compilable, see the following compilable MWE (without errors):

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,ragged2e]{altacv}

%% AltaCV uses the fontawesome and academicon fonts
%% and packages.
%% See texdoc.net/pkg/fontawecome and http://texdoc.net/pkg/academicons for full list of symbols. You MUST compile with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX if you want to use academicons.

% Change the page layout if you need to
\geometry{left=2cm,right=10cm,marginparwidth=6.8cm,marginparsep=1.2cm,top=1.25cm,bottom=1.25cm}

% Change the font if you want to, depending on whether
% you're using pdflatex or xelatex/lualatex
\ifxetexorluatex
  % If using xelatex or lualatex:
  \setmainfont{Carlito}
\else
  % If using pdflatex:
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[default]{lato}
\fi

% Change the colours if you want to
\definecolor{VividPurple}{HTML}{000000}
\definecolor{SlateGrey}{HTML}{2E2E2E}
\definecolor{LightGrey}{HTML}{2E2E2E}
\colorlet{heading}{VividPurple}
\colorlet{accent}{VividPurple}
\colorlet{emphasis}{SlateGrey}
\colorlet{body}{LightGrey}

% Change the bullets for itemize and rating marker
% for \cvskill if you want to
\renewcommand{\itemmarker}{{\small\textbullet}}
\renewcommand{\ratingmarker}{\faCircle}

%% sample.bib contains your publications
\addbibresource{sample.bib}

\newcommand{\mediumsymbol}{\faMedium} % <===============================
\newcommand{\medium}[1]{\printinfo{\mediumsymbol}{#1}} 


\begin{document}
\name{abc}
\tagline{AAAA}
% Cropped to square from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer#/media/File:Marissa_Mayer_May_2014_(cropped).jpg, CC-BY 2.0
%\photo{3.3cm}{profile.jpg}
\personalinfo{%
  % Not all of these are required!
  % You can add your own with \printinfo{symbol}{detail}
  \email{abc@gmail.com}
%   \phone{000-00-0000}
%  \mailaddress{Address, Street, 00000 County}
  \location{loc}
  \medium{meidum.com/abc}
%  \twitter{@marissamayer}
  \linkedin{linkedin.com/in/abc}
   \github{github.com/abc} % I'm just making this up though.
%   \orcid{orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000} % Obviously making this up too. If you want to use this field (and also other academicons symbols), add "academicons" option to \documentclass{altacv}
}

%% Make the header extend all the way to the right, if you want.
\begin{fullwidth}
\makecvheader
\end{fullwidth}

%% Depending on your tastes, you may want to make fonts of itemize environments slightly smaller
\AtBeginEnvironment{itemize}{\small}

\cvsection{Experience} % [mmayer-p1sidebar]

\cvevent{President \& CEO}{Yahoo!}{July 2012 -- Ongoing}{Sunnyvale, CA}
\begin{itemize}
\item Led the \$5 billion acquisition of the company with Verizon -- the entity which believed most in the immense value Yahoo!\ has created
\item Acquired Tumblr for \$1.1 billion and moved the company's blog there
\item Built Yahoo's mobile, video and social businesses from nothing in 2011 to \$1.6 billion in GAAP revenue in 2015
\item Tripled the company's mobile base to over 600 million monthly active users and generated over \$1 billion of mobile advertising revenue last year
\end{itemize}

\divider

\cvevent{Vice President of Location \& Services}{Google}{Oct 2010 -- July 2012}{Palo Alto, CA}
\begin{itemize}
\item Position Google Maps as the world leader in mobile apps and navigation
\item Oversaw 1000+ engineers and product managers working on Google Maps, Google Places and Google Earth
\end{itemize}

\divider

\cvevent{Vice President of Search Products \& UX}{Google}{2005 --  2010}{Palo Alto, CA}

\divider

\cvevent{Product Manager \& UI Lead}{Google}{Oct 2001 -- July 2005}{Palo Alto, CA}

\begin{itemize}
\item Appointed by the founder Larry Page in 2001 to lead the Product Management and User Interaction teams
\item Optimized Google's homepage and A/B tested every minor detail to increase usability (incl.~spacing between words, color schemes and pixel-by-pixel element alignment)
\end{itemize}

\cvsection{A Day of My Life}

\wheelchart{1.5cm}{0.5cm}{%
  10/10em/accent!30/Sleeping \& dreaming about work,
  25/9em/accent!60/Public resolving issues with Yahoo!\ investors,
  5/13em/accent!10/\footnotesize\\[1ex]New York \& San Francisco Ballet Jawbone board member,
  20/15em/accent!40/Spending time with family,
  5/8em/accent!20/\footnotesize Business development for Yahoo!\ after the Verizon acquisition,
  30/9em/accent/Showing Yahoo!\ employees that their work has meaning,
  5/8em/accent!20/Baking cupcakes
}
\end{document}

and its result:

result

As you can see with the corrected code the links in personal section are spaced equally. Do not missinterpret the short loc, it makes an optical illusion of not spaced equally ...

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