Change meta author name

  • Resolved elfu98

    (@elfu98)


    2 years, 9 months ago

    Hello!
    I have created my own system to add guest author to WordPress using ACF and I’m trying to link Yoast to it.

    Is there a way I can change the content value inside :

    <meta name="author" content="<strong>EnVi Media</strong>">

    So that it doesn’t say “EnVi Media” but the real author name that I put in my custom field.

    I have looked into the documentation but I didn’t see any filter that does it.
    Thank you!

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    2 years, 9 months ago

    Hello Elfu,

    Thanks for reaching out regarding your author profile.

    I understand that you want the author’s name to show in the meta tag. You will need to adequately set up the author profile in WordPress > Users and then edit the profile. This should pull the author’s name for any content published by that author.

    Also, what choice did you pick in WordPress > Yoast SEO > Search Appearance > Knowledge Graph & Schema.org? Is it organization or person? Do you have multiple authors on the website?

    Thread Starter elfu98

    (@elfu98)

    2 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Maybellyne! Thank you for the reply!
    I am not using the author field from wordpress to display authors. I have created a custom post type with their names and other info since only editors are posting on the website. This allows me to also select multiple authors for one article.
    Will the meta tag change if I update the schema?

    Thank you!

    Jeroen Rotty

    (@jeroenrotty)

    2 years, 7 months ago

    Hey @elfu98,

    Sorry for the late response.

    I can’t tell for sure if that would work or not, I recommend trying your custom solution on a staging/development environment and validating/checking your Schema output using validator.schema.org.

    Please also understand that giving support on your customization or specific code is beyond the scope of our support. Thank you.

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