Google Authorship

Hi Mark,
you need first to have a child theme (have a look in the WordPress documentation or do some googling, out there it’s plenty of good tutorials) and in your functions.php you just need to add this snippet:

//Add page authorship for my web site
add_action('wp_head', 'add_google_rel_author');
function add_google_rel_author() {
echo '<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/blablabla" />';
}

Ciao!
Nicola

Thanks for the quick reply, Nicola.
Is the child theme necessary? It seems as though I could add this code snippet without it, no?

Mark

Maybe you could use a plugin https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?q=google+authorship+code&sort=

I think it is really worth doing a little effort to build a child theme; by the way, you just need to create a directory next to your original theme and put in it the functions.php file.

This simple strategy will help you a lot when the Customizr team will release new updates of the theme: if you decide to update it, the WordPress update process will remove the older one and you’ll loose all your work…

Just 3 minutes for a child theme and you won’t have headache anymore!
Nicola

Ok Nicola, I’ve created the child theme. I think you’re saying that I create a new functions.php file in the child theme folder and that the only code in that file is what you have above – correct?

Mark

I’m not seeing the authorship code in view source. Here’s exactly what I put in the functions.php file:

<?php
/**
*
* This functions.php file is ONLY for the Child Theme
*/

//Add page authorship for my web site
add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘add_google_rel_author’);
function add_google_rel_author() {
echo ‘<link rel=”author” href=”https://plus.google.com/106532785326335558821&#8243; />’;
}

Can you link your site?

https://www.runspotrun.com

Clear your browser’s cache, the authorship code is there.

Ok. Interesting. The code I added specified link rel=”author” (which is why I was searching for “author” in the source) but the source says link rel=”publisher”. Any idea why it flipped or if there is a difference to Google?

Ahhh. The rel=publisher is coming from WordPress SEO plugin. I still don’t have rel=author code from the child functions.php showing up.

Ok. I didn’t get it to work via the addition of that code in a functions.php in the child, but looking more closely at the WordPress SEO plugin, I made it work there. AND – added bonus – I set up my child theme so that I can now make changes to the CSS that will persist with updates to the Customizr theme. Thanks all!