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Publishing your authorship of a post is designed to be both easy and flexible to adapt to a variety of publishing methods and designs. Any of the following are fine. | Publishing your authorship of a post is designed to be both easy and flexible to adapt to a variety of publishing methods and designs. | ||
Most people want to choose between displaying their name and picture or including author information for feed readers without the author information being displayed in every post. Any of the following methods to mark up your posts are fine. | |||
Choose whichever is the least work for you, your site, your theme(s), your code, and easiest for you to maintain! | Choose whichever is the least work for you, your site, your theme(s), your code, and easiest for you to maintain! | ||
Revision as of 02:00, 15 February 2020
authorship is how to indicate who the author is for a post, and an algorithm that determines the author of a post.
Why
You should clearly indicate who is the author of a post so when other sites summarize or reply to your post, they can properly recognize the author(s)!
How to
How to publish
Publishing your authorship of a post is designed to be both easy and flexible to adapt to a variety of publishing methods and designs.
Most people want to choose between displaying their name and picture or including author information for feed readers without the author information being displayed in every post. Any of the following methods to mark up your posts are fine.
Choose whichever is the least work for you, your site, your theme(s), your code, and easiest for you to maintain!
- h-entry markup on your posts including an explicit
p-authororu-author(preferably enhanced with an embedded h-card, e.g.<a class="u-author h-card" href="/">…</a>if your posts have your name, photo etc. already visible) - OR if you have an h-card on your website (e.g. from a global template for your header or footer) that links to your homepage, then add a minimal
<a class="u-author" href="/"></a>inside your post h-entry.
streams of posts (like on an archive, homepage, etc.) without explicit authorship per post:
- h-feed markup including an explicit
p-authororu-author((preferably enhanced with an embedded h-card as described above) - OR if you have an h-card on your website (e.g. from a global template for your header or footer) that links to your homepage, then add a minimal
<a class="u-author" href="/"></a>inside your h-feed.
separate author description pages (e.g. when using u-author)
Validate
Try this authorship testing tool to validate your authorship markup - it will tell you how the authorship algorithm finds your author information on a permalink:
How to determine
See authorship-spec.
See Also
- authorship-spec
- discovery
- posts
- h-entry
- h-card
- rel-author
- https://sturdy-backbone.glitch.me/ – simple testing tool by Sven Knebel showing how the algorithm plays out for a given URL