basic-google-authorship

This plugin replaces author links of your posts with your Google+ Profile Link. This allow your Google+ Profile picture to be displayed in Google search results. It Works for single author and multi-author WordPress sites.

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working. e.g.

1. Extract and upload the `basic-google-authorship` directory into `/wp-content/plugins`
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Each writer should update the “Contributor to” field in their Google+ profile to link to the website
4. Update each author’s profile to include a link to their Google+ profile.
5. In your Wordpress theme replace "get_the_author()" by "do_shortcode("[basic_google_authorship_name]")" and "get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) )" by "do_shortcode("[basic_google_authorship_link]")"
6. Confirm that your authorship is working properly by verifying with Google’s Rich Snippets tool.

1.0.0

• Initial commit