Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#17722 closed enhancement (fixed)
Implement rel="author" in Twenty Eleven, Twenty Ten and core
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Milestone: | 3.2 | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | 3.2 |
Component: | Bundled Theme | Keywords: | |
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Description
Google today announced support for the new rel="author". Of course, as WordPress has always been about semantic publishing, we like and support that, so I thought I'd quickly come up with a patch and see if we can push this into 3.2 :)
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+1 - It looks like the patch affects Twenty Ten as well as Twenty Eleven. How are we handling stuff like this for Twenty Ten?
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14 years ago
Replying to aaroncampbell:
+1 - It looks like the patch affects Twenty Ten as well as Twenty Eleven. How are we handling stuff like this for Twenty Ten?
Yeah I sort of did that on purpose to be honest, if people are using Twenty Ten this is a nice upgrade, right?
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14 years ago
- Summary changed from Implement rel="author" to Implement rel="author" in Twenty Eleven and Twenty Ten
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14 years ago
- Summary changed from Implement rel="author" in Twenty Eleven and Twenty Ten to Implement rel="author" in Twenty Eleven, Twenty Ten and core
For the record, the ticket now says in Twenty Eleven and Twenty Ten, the patch does fix it in core too.
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14 years ago
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I fail to grasp how this patch fulfills Google's definition of how this attribute is supposed to add semantic value:
An author page is a page about a specific author. [...] The rel="author" link must point to an author page on the same site as the content page.
IMHO, all we get is a filtered list of an author's content items. This is by no means an author page (bio, contact info, author profile) AFAICS.
Can anyone shed some light on this, besides the obvious PR value?
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In some themes, the author page will show specific information about an author. Often it might actually be their bio, link to their website, their photo/gravatar, a link to their twitter handle, what have you, followed by just a bulleted list of recent stories or something.
Many themes won't have that. In that case, this would not be beneficial, but it won't hurt, either. But on sites where the author page *does* mean something, then this definitely provides a value to search engines.
Patch that adds rel="author" to core and 2011