Title: Basic Google Authorship
Author: phpgeekfr
Published: <strong>Nobyembre 20, 2013</strong>
Last modified: Nobyembre 24, 2013

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Basic Google Authorship

 By [phpgeekfr](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bilbud/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/basic-google-authorship.1.0.0.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/basic-google-authorship/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/basic-google-authorship/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/basic-google-authorship/)

## Description

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.

## Installation

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](http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets).

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Basic Google Authorship” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ phpgeekfr ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bilbud/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial commit

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **12 tuig ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.2.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/basic-google-authorship/)
 * Tag
 * [google authorship](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-authorship/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/basic-google-authorship/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ phpgeekfr ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bilbud/)

## Support

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