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Plugin Description
- Makes it easier to get Google Authorship Verification
- Uses rel=author, rel=me and rel=publisher links to connect your posts, archives, authors pages, Google Plus profiles and Google Plus pages.
- Works on single and multiple author sites
- Supports several ways to link your posts/pages to your author pages: byline, footnote, author box or menu link.
- Helps you set up your archive pages for Google authorship verification
- Allows you to add a title, short or extended bio and sub-headings to your author pages
- Creates links from your site’s author pages to the authors’ Google Plus Profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and Skype as well as Google+
- Creates a link from your home page to your Google Plus Page for your product, brand or organization
- Allows you to control whether your rich snippets show the original post publication date or the last time the post was updated.
- Allows you to control whether external links in the author bios are rel=nofollow
- Ability to control whether or not you have Google Authorship for custom post types
- See http://www.authorsure.com/category/themes has set-up instructions for most popular WordPress themes
AuthorSure supplies some shortcodes for use on multi-author sites or where you want more control over placement:
- [authorsure_authors] displays author boxes with photos and bios for all your authors
- [authorsure_author_box] allows you to place the author box exactly where you want on the page
- [authorsure_author_profiles] allows you to place the social icons exactly where you want on the page
Links
Here are some of the useful AuthorSure WordPress Plugin links
- AuthorSure Home Page http://www.authorsure.com/
- Google AuthorSure Markup Explained http://www.authorsure.com/google-authorship-markup/
- AuthorSure Plugin Features http://www.authorsure.com/category/features/
- AuthorSure Help and Support http://www.authorsure.com/help/
- AuthorSure Tutorials http://www.authorsure.com/free-video-tutorials/
Screenshots
Example of an author page
Example of using an author box example to indicate rel=author
Example of setting up a menu link to indicate rel=author on a single author blog
