article:author not being set

  • Resolved lehmax

    (@lehmax)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    https://piratenpartei-rhein-erft.de/2017/03/30/kooperation-statt-stillstand/
    As you can see in the source code article:author is not being set, even though I used “Facebook URL (default)” under “General Settings” -> “Authorship”. As I understood it, this setting should set the article:author to the same value it is setting article:publisher. I also think this is just a bug and not supposed to be like this, even in the free version. I’ll glady buy the pro version if you fix this.

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  • Plugin Author JS Morisset

    (@jsmoriss)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Have you read the Setup Guide? Have a look at the “Author Social Accounts (Optional)” section. 😉

    js.

    Thread Starter lehmax

    (@lehmax)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    It would still be nice if the the authorship could default to the page URL when there is no URL set in the profile of the author. There are many pages that just put the page URL into the article:author when the articles aren’t written by a single author. I’d like to do that for every post of ours, because the individual authors don’t matter much for our page.

    By the way, putting a page URL into my profile doesn’t work. Still no article:author to be seen in the source.

    Thread Starter lehmax

    (@lehmax)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Don’t worry, found the mistake.
    Would still be cool if there was an option to default to the facebook page of the webiste when an author doesn’t input their own page. Thanks for the quick answer. 🙂

    Plugin Author JS Morisset

    (@jsmoriss)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    https://piratenpartei-rhein-erft.de/2017/03/30/kooperation-statt-stillstand/

    
<!-- article:author:1 --><meta property="article:author" content="https://www.facebook.com/PiratenRheinErft/"/>

    The article:author meta tag value is for the URL of Facebook users, not Facebook Pages – this is a Facebook requirement.

    js.

    Thread Starter lehmax

    (@lehmax)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    If that was really a Facebook requirement, why would they allow pages in there? It’s allowed because many authors separate their page and their private profile, for example because there are more features for creating posts and analysing them when using a page.

    https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
    This tool is not giving a warning so I’m 99% sure this is fine.

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by lehmax.
    Plugin Author JS Morisset

    (@jsmoriss)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Have you tried Google?

    https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/object-type/article/

    js.

    Thread Starter lehmax

    (@lehmax)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Yes, that’s how I first discovered article:author. Pretty sure this documentation is just outdated. Their debug tools would give an error if people weren’t supposed to insert pages.

    Plugin Author JS Morisset

    (@jsmoriss)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    No, it does not.

    js.

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