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#15136 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Add author tag to RSS 2 feeds
| Reported by: | njw | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Feeds | Version: | |
| Severity: | trivial | Keywords: | has-patch needs-testing |
| Cc: | Focuses: |
Description
The RSS 2.0 specification includes an optional <author> tag; see http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#ltauthorgtSubelementOfLtitemgt
My newsreader of choice, and I suspect some others, do take the author tag into account, but ignore the dc:creator tag. I therefore think it'd be nice to add the author tag, as it'll make feed output that much nicer for newsreaders and other RSS parsers.
I attach a one-line patch doing this. Enjoy!
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Change History (4)
#1
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16 years ago
The author element must contain an email address, which WordPress developers want to avoid. According to the RSS Best Practices Profile, dc:creator should be used (http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#namespace-elements-dublin-creator).
#2
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16 years ago
- Milestone Awaiting Review
- Resolution → wontfix
- Status new → closed
We are not going to add the authors email address to all rss2 feeds by default as that is just lame for most users.
If you want to do this use the rss_item action to output this yourself from a plugin.
#3
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16 years ago
- Cc added
Replying to peaceablewhale:
The author element must contain an email address, which WordPress developers want to avoid.
Aah, OK, I wasn't sure, as the spec example wasn't just an email address (or the "My Name" <my@…> email standard), and Jekyll's (/happyblogger's) rss output seems to just be the author name, so I thought it was more loose. But not to worry; I'll just fix my RSS client :-)
Patch adding author tag to RSS2 feeds