Title: article:author not being set
Last modified: April 16, 2017

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# article:author not being set

 *  Resolved [lehmax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lehmax/)
 * (@lehmax)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articleauthor-not-being-set/)
 * [https://piratenpartei-rhein-erft.de/2017/03/30/kooperation-statt-stillstand/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsmoriss/)
 * (@jsmoriss)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articleauthor-not-being-set/#post-9036831)
 * Have you read the Setup Guide? Have a look at the “Author Social Accounts (Optional)”
   section. 😉
 * js.
 *  Thread Starter [lehmax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lehmax/)
 * (@lehmax)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articleauthor-not-being-set/#post-9036880)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lehmax/)
 * (@lehmax)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articleauthor-not-being-set/#post-9036891)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsmoriss/)
 * (@jsmoriss)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articleauthor-not-being-set/#post-9036894)
 * [https://piratenpartei-rhein-erft.de/2017/03/30/kooperation-statt-stillstand/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lehmax/)
 * (@lehmax)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articleauthor-not-being-set/#post-9037171)
 * 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/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lehmax/).
 *  Plugin Author [JS Morisset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsmoriss/)
 * (@jsmoriss)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articleauthor-not-being-set/#post-9037320)
 * Have you tried Google?
 * [https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/object-type/article/](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/object-type/article/)
 * js.
 *  Thread Starter [lehmax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lehmax/)
 * (@lehmax)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articleauthor-not-being-set/#post-9037339)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsmoriss/)
 * (@jsmoriss)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articleauthor-not-being-set/#post-9037362)
 * No, it does not.
 * js.

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