If you have a blog with a single author who writes all the content, and you are using the WordPress menu system, then you can use the About page on the menu to specify the rel=”author” link.
AuthorSure will then place the author’s Google+ profile at the foot of the About page.
An Example Site
This is a screenshot of the “about page” with the profile information below .
Setting up the Menu Link
This is a screenshot of the WordPress menu administration where you set up the link with rel=”author”.
When To Use the Rel=Author Menu Link
This menu linking method is appropriate when:
- you have just one author on your site;
- you are using the WordPress menu system
- you don’t want to put an author box on every page on your site;
- your WordPress theme does not provide rel=”author” links in the post byline
AuthorSure Settings
When you select ‘menu’ as the method of identifying the author there are two settings:
- choose the primary author
- choose which page is your about page (the one where you added “author” as the link relationship
About Russell
Technologist, software engineer, internet marketer and WordPress plugin developer with experience in Finance, Telecoms and the Media.
This is a pretty slick plugin. Thanks for the good documentation here.
I have everything set up and working but my photo is not showing up on my Bio on my about page. It’s all set up according to the above instructions for a single author/user.
My picture is uploaded in my user file showing one large image and a thumbnail. The bio is showing everything as set up in my user profile.
Please advise and thank you.
Please can you use the contact form and send me your wordpress login URL, admin username and password. I’ll take a look.
Hello there,
Thank you for this plug-in. I have set up Author sure like you explain here but i don’t show the “author box” (with my face and bio) in my blog posts. Is it normal ?
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An other litle thing, i don’t show the Google+ icon (http://www.serviettes-en-fete.fr/a-propos/).
Nicolas TAFFOREAU recently posted..Ouverture du site web
Hi Nicolas,
Typically this happens when you are running another plugin that adds GooglePlus to the “contact methods” that appear on the “Your Profile” page. What does the Contact Info section of your “Your Profile” page look like?
It should look a bit like this:
Hello again Russell,
Look at this picture: http://www.serviettes-en-fete.fr/Sanstitre-1.jpg
Nicolas TAFFOREAU recently posted..Ouverture du site web
I think your contact labels have become corrupted – your screenshot of “Your Profile” is showing a different label for Google Plus and is not showing the icon.
You probably need to reconfigure the plugin having first gone into phpMyAdmin on your cPanel and run the following SQL
delete from wp_options where option_name='authorsure_options';Hi Nicolas,
The single author (menu) method does NOT show the AuthorBox – if you want to show the AuthorBox on every post choose the ‘Author Box’ method in AuthorSure admin settings and remove the rel=”menu” from the “A Propos” item on the menu
Regards
Russell
Thank’s Russell, and about the Google plus’s icon ?
Nicolas TAFFOREAU recently posted..Ouverture du site web
Hello Russell,
The problem comes from “All in one SEO” plugin, now, i have to find where. Thank you for your help.
Kind regards.
Nicolas TAFFOREAU recently posted..Ouverture du site web
Hi Russell – I am having a bit of problem wonder if you could help please. Great plug in by the way!
On my wordpress I am using WPLook. My bio appears on all my posts however when I click on my name in the bio to go to the bio page I created it just post over my header no even on my blog.
I been trying different methods sitll no fix what can I do?
Thanks a “Million”
Kim
Kim, What is the URL of the page you are referring to? And what do you mean by “…it just post over my header no even on my blog”.
Hi Russell,
I have been working with this since yesterday. So now I have my about box on my posting, however when I click on the “About Author” it just goes back to my home page for my blog. Is it not going to the About.
http://www.howtobuyterminsurance.com/retirement
I have my author box at the bottom of pages and post … when I click on my name About: Kim D. Murray it takes me to the main page of my blog and not the about page. The googl+ info shows at the to over my blog ..
Photo Link: http://www.howtobuyterminsurance.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/above_blog.png
I have tried all sorts of combinatios
Thanks for you help
KIm
Kim,
This is not your home page but is in fact your Author archive – (which is similar to your home page so It would be better to display excerpts rather than full posts)
To fix the layout issue on http://www.howtobuyterminsurance.com/author/admin3termempire, increase the Hook Instance to 2 or maybe 3 to move the author information to the correct location.
CatchBox is a popular WordPress theme so I will produce an tutorial for it later today
Regards
Russell
Hello Russell,
Great plugin! I seem to have the basics setup as Rich Snippets shows my profile pic, but I am a bit confused about two things:
1. http://stepstopassiveincome.com/author/admin shows my archives but no description or social profiles.
2. http://www.stepstopassiveincome.com/about-kent-mccorkle shows my meta description and profiles, but no recent posts.
How can I combine both into one page?
Thank you!
~Kent
Hi Kent,
Please change the AuthorSure setting to use either the ‘Footnote’ or the ‘AuthorBox’ method and use the Extended Bio section to include more information at the top of your Author page http://stepstopassiveincome.com/author/admin.
Regards
Russell
Thank you! But is there a way to add that info to my Author page without adding my Author box at the bottom of every post?
Kent,
If you use the “Footnote” method you get something less obtrusive than an Author Box. For example, Last Updated by Kent on 12 Dec 2012, where Kent is a rel=author link to your author page. You can control whether or not the date is displayed and also the exact text used.
Hi Russell,
Is there any way to show up the author avatar in home page excepts too?
Thanks.
Sreejesh
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Hi Sreejesh,
AuthorSure is designed to only put one AuthorBox (or rel=author link) on each page.
On an archive page or home page you have multiple posts so it not clear how Google interprets a page with multiple author links.
Many themes will add an author avatar in the byline for each post excerpt so my suggestion would be to use a WordPress theme that does this for you. With Genesis, Thesis or Hybrid then this is all pretty straightforward.
Regards
Russell
Is it possible to insert hyperlinks in the authorbox? when I manually insert the html code for a link in the “About The user” section, it is removed when saved.
Hi Chris,
Yes, both the standard Bio and the Extended Bio accept HTML – for example, see the author box at the foot of the page http://www.authorsure.com/719/welcome-to-google-authorship, where I have just added a link.
Maybe your theme or another plugin is stripping the HTML from the bio?
Hi,
These are warnings which you can safely ignore. They exist because the post is missing the last updated date.
If you use the AuthorSure “footnote” method then a byline can be added to the foot of the post: “Last updated by author(with link) on Date and there will be no warnings in the Google Rich Snippets Tool