Free rel="author" plugin for our fellow Genesis users

[RobertDempsey]

Hi everyone - I had my WordPress team at 9Seeds create a plugin for our fellow Genesis theme users that will:

1. Add a field for your Google+ profile to your WordPress user profile
2. Turn your name in the author box into a link to your Google+ profile
3. Add the rel="author" tag to the link

Google is now supporting the rel="author" tag and for social media and SEO purposes this is an important addition to your blog.

The download and install instructions are on this post: http://su.pr/5zhc4q

Enjoy!

Robert Dempsey, CEO &Founder
Dempsey Marketing
http://dempseymarketing.com

[officeto-go]

How awesome of you! You rock!

[Campbell McArthur]

Good afternoon Robert, thank you for the Google+ invite as well as the tutorial and plugin!

I already have my author box set up via Genesis . I find worth and merit in your post but is there a way to add this to the Author box without adding a plugin ?

[officeto-go]

//add more user contact methods
add_filter('user_contactmethods', 'more_contactmethods');
function more_contactmethods($contactmethods) {
$contactmethods['twitter'] = 'Twitter username';
$contactmethods['facebook'] = 'Facebook URL';
$contactmethods['linkedin'] = 'LinkedIn URL';
$contactmethods ['youtube'] = 'YouTube URL';
$contactmethods['google_profile'] = 'Google Profile URL';
return $contactmethods;

}

[Campbell McArthur]

Hi, Cyndi

I am not fluent with coding yet, is what you posted above to be entered into the functions.php file? If not where might I put it?


Thank you

Campbell

[Campbell McArthur]

Ok, it added the different elements to the my user profile page but it does not achor ref my name in the Author box such as the plugin did!

How do I get that to implement as well through code Cyndi?

Thank you

Campbell

[RobertDempsey]

Hi Campbell - you can use the code in the plugin and add it to your functions.php to achieve the same effect. We made the plugin to make it easy.

Looks like Cyndi beat me to helping you out. Thanks Cyndi!

[Campbell McArthur]

Great assist Robert! Thank you for all of your help you and your plugin ROCK!

Thank you as well Cyndi!



Campbell

[officeto-go]

Oh, oh, in my original posting of code forgot the last line:

add_filter( 'user_contactmethods', 'your_add_google_profile', 10, 1);