Comments on: Adding the Rel=Author to WordPress

By: Eileen Lonergan

Eileen Lonergan — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:29:13 +0000

In reply to paul.

Paul, it depends on if you are verifying yourself (your profile) or the company site (in which case you want to set up rel=publisher, not author).

By: paul

paul — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 02:29:23 +0000

This is the code for the link. Your First and Last Name on Google+

Do I point it to my profile of my companies profile?

By: Usman Khurshid

Usman Khurshid — Sun, 26 May 2013 23:04:26 +0000

Is there any way to add Authorship markup on a multi user blog using Thesis theme?

By: Eileen Lonergan

Eileen Lonergan — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:42 +0000

In reply to James.

Jamie, it sounds like you tested with the Rich Snippets Testing Tool and had success. Can you try Googling a few posts to see if your avatar shows in the search results?

By: James

James — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:31:26 +0000

Great post, I was having trouble adding Google Authorship to our wordpress sites and this really helped. For some reason, the plugins were no help!
However, when I test it, everything seems fine but there are numerous errors from Google and they say;
“Warning: Missing required field “updated”.” Do you know what this means, and will if have an effect on showing the Google Plus profile?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:13:48 +0000

I have been meaning to do this for a clients website and your blog was good motivation. I tried it out on my personal blog first to make sure I got it, and hope it works. Good article and easy to follow step by step instructions.

By: Eileen Lonergan

Eileen Lonergan — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:49:32 +0000

In reply to Christine Springer.

Christine, you shouldn’t need to put the code into each post. If you log into your dashboard and go to Appearance, the last option is Editor, click on that and look along the left hand column for header.php – that is where you want to put the code.

By: Eileen Lonergan

Eileen Lonergan — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:47:50 +0000

In reply to Melissa.

Melissa, sorry I am delayed in responding. If you are still stuck can you send me a private message with more details (your url and the theme) so I can have a look? Thank you http://www.eileenlonergan.com/contact

By: Eileen Lonergan

Eileen Lonergan — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:46:45 +0000

Hi Kimberly, thanks for reaching out. The CSS file is what governs the look and style of the website, so if you wanted to change things related to the look (links without underlines, or font size, or H1 color, etc) you would use the CSS file. So navigate to Appearance -> Editor -> Header.php and look there. I see this is giving Melissa trouble – maybe tell me which theme you are using, or send me a private message through my website (http://www.eileenlonergan.com/contact) with a link to the site.

By: Kimberly Koehler

Kimberly Koehler — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:54:51 +0000

I am using a WP theme that is using the Child frame work. With that being said would I then add the code to the CSS file and if so how should that code appear so that it is put into the Header?