AuthorSure can place a rich snippet at the foot of the post that states the author using the “rel=author” link and also indicates when the article was last updated using the HTML5 time microformat.
This approach is particularly useful for sites where:
- you are using a theme that does not support a post byline that includes the “rel=author” link; or
- you just prefer to have the author link at the foot of the article
- you have posts being updated periodically and your theme shows the original publication date of the article rather than the date is was last updated
Prerequisites to Using An Author Footnote
Each author on your site must have:
- set up their Google+ Profile Page
- logged into your WordPress site, edited “Your Profile”, and saved their Google+ Profile Page URL
- edited their Google+ Profile Page and added a “contributor link” back to their author page on your site
Steps in Setting Up Post Footnotes
The Site Administrator selects AuthorSure on the Setting menu, and then:
- Sets the rel=author method as “Footnote”
- Enters the text that precedes the author name
- Chooses whether or not to display the last updated date
- Enters the text that precedes the date
- Saves AuthorSure settings
- Tests the results by selecting a post, and pasting its URL into the Google Rich Snippet Testing Tool
One thing that is noteworthy about this technique is that the Rich Snippet Testing tool should yield no errors or warnings: the author footnote is fully compliant with the schema.org item properties that make up the rich snippet
The following video tutorial steps through the process of setting up AuthorSure using the footnote method which is the one used on the Slickr Flickr WordPress Plugin site.
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Video Tutorial
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