This metatag can be useful for letting google know that you are the author of a post which helps add your image next to the result in a SERP and can also (potentially) affect rankings.

#1278146: [META] Ensure all meta tags are supported (no patches, just planning) doesn't mention author, but I feel like it should be included in the core package.

Luckily, y'all are brilliant so it is easy to add this.

Some background:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986
http://yoast.com/push-rel-author-head/

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#22 metatag-n1865228-21.patch4.16 KBDamienMcKenna
#21 metatag-n1865228-21.interdiff.txt373 bytesDamienMcKenna
#19 metatag-n1865228-19.patch3.79 KBDamienMcKenna
#17 metatag-n1865228-17.patch2.8 KBDamienMcKenna
#13 metatag-n1865228-13.patch2.19 KBDamienMcKenna
#4 metatag-n1865228-4.patch610 bytesgreggles
#3 metatag-n1865228-3.patch615 bytesDamienMcKenna
#1 1865228_add_author_support.patch433 bytesgreggles
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@greggles: Nice 'n simple, thanks. That said, it could use a better description.

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@greggles: is this description ok?

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Slight change for grammar and to avoid the use of the escaping \ in the string. I think the \ in a string is frustrating to translators so I switched to using " to enclose the string which is just as performant in modern versions of PHP.

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Status: Needs review » Fixed

Looks good. Committed! Thanks greggles.

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Issue tags: +Nodewords-Metatag feature parity

I've just added a corresponding issue for Nodewords to add this new tag: #1866922: Add support for the rel=author meta tag

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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Hi,

As this [very useful] patch works for the development release, I was just wondering if it will be ported to the next recommended release [7.x-1.0-beta5 or so].

Regards,

Gilles

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@Gilles: The patch has already been committed, it's already in the dev version thus will be in the next release.

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Looks great, but how should it be used when more people are authors on the site?

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@DamienMcKenna: many thanks for the 7.x-1.0-beta5 release including the rel=author link meta tag!

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Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 8.x-1.x-dev
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Closed (fixed) » Patch (to be ported)

Needs to be ported to D8.

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Status: Patch (to be ported) » Needs review
Parent issue: » #2741339: Plan for Metatag 8.x-1.0-beta10 release
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metatag-n1865228-13.patch2.19 KB

This adds the tag to 8.x-1.x.

  • DamienMcKenna committed 0273ead on 8.x-1.x 
    Issue #1865228 by DamienMcKenna, greggles: Added the Author meta tag.
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Status: Needs review » Fixed

Committed.

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Version: 8.x-1.x-dev » 7.x-1.x-dev
Status: Fixed » Patch (to be ported)
Related issues: +#2758749: Plan for Metatag 7.x-1.18 release

This was moved to the Google Plus submodule for D8, so need to backport that for D7.

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Lets see if this works.

  • DamienMcKenna committed ee5548d on 7.x-1.x 
    Issue #1865228 by DamienMcKenna: Moved Author meta tag to GooglePlus...
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Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 8.x-1.x-dev
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So the D8 version wasn't moved to the submodule after all. Now it is.

Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch, 19: metatag-n1865228-19.patch, failed testing.

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This should fix those errors.

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  • DamienMcKenna committed 8d8b7ad on 8.x-1.x 
    Issue #1865228 by DamienMcKenna: Moved the Author meta tag into the...
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Status: Needs review » Fixed

Committed.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.