After having set up Google authorship on several sites by now and not having consistent results with the plugins that are already out there, I've come into consistent code to implement it in Thesis. Implementing it can be pretty theme-specific unless a user is comfortable with editing template files or working with WP hooks.
The plugin adds a rel=me link to the byline, and a rel=author link on the author archive to the G+ profile to establish authorship. Brief instructions are in the readme's description.
40 lines of code and simple to set up.
| Author: | Andrew S Freeman (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.3 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.4.2 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 22-09-2012 |
| Last updated: | 22-09-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 1 |
| Plugin URI: | http://andrewsfreeman.com |
| Total downloads: | 2 389 |
| Active installs: | 70+ |
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After setting this up on several sites, I figured it may be time to release this simple plugin into the wild. This plugin adds google authorship support to the Thesis theme. It creates a new contact method called “Google Profile URL” to the WordPress profiles screen, adds a rel=me to the author byline, and adds a link to the Google+ profile on the author’s archive with rel=author. If you can’t do domain email verification to establish authorship and you’re using Thesis, this plugin will help.
Should work with Thesis 1.6+. Please let me know if there are any issues.
- Make sure you have “Show author name in post byline” and “Link author name to archive” selected under Thesis Design Options > Display Options > Bylines.
- Add your Google+ profile link to your profile information.
- Add a link to your author archive to your Google+ profile, in either your “other profiles” or “contributor to” sections.
- Check everything by visiting the Google Rich Snippets testing Tool.