Are LinkedIn profile badges still available?

What the LinkedIn profile badge is

The public profile badge is a small “View profile” button or card that you could add to an online resume, blog or website. LinkedIn generated the code for you: on your public profile settings page, you clicked “Create a public profile badge” at the bottom of the right rail, picked a style and copied the snippet into your site.

The badge has always been a fixed LinkedIn design with little room for styling, and it only covered your personal profile, not company pages or posts.

What to do before December 12, 2026

1. 1

   Find every page with the badge

   Check your homepage, about page, resume page, blog sidebar and footer, and any site template that includes the badge code LinkedIn gave you.

2. 2

   Choose a replacement

   Pick one of the options in the table below. A plain link to your profile URL is the quickest; a widget shows the most.

3. 3

   Swap the code and test

   Remove the badge snippet, add the replacement and check the live page on desktop and mobile. LinkedIn's article doesn't say what old badge code will display after the cut-off, so don't leave it in place.

Replacement options

Which one to pick depends on what the badge was doing. If it was simply a way for visitors to find you on LinkedIn, a text link or icon in your header or footer does the same job with no third-party code. If it sat on an about or resume page as a quick introduction, a profile card gives visitors more to go on, such as your current role, skills and experience, without leaving your site. Whatever you choose, make sure your public profile is turned on; otherwise people who aren't signed in to LinkedIn may not be able to see it.

LinkedIn's brand guidelines allow the [in] logo as a hyperlink to your LinkedIn profile, but not modified or combined with other logos or words. Job seekers and freelancers may also like the job seekers use case.