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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.
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 3.2.1.
SourceWordPress plugins · Nov 7, 2026
01 / Source details
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.
02 / Source details
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working. e.g.
- 01Extract and upload the `basic-google-authorship` directory into `/wp-content/plugins`
- 02Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- 03Each writer should update the “Contributor to” field in their Google+ profile to link to the website
- 04Update each author’s profile to include a link to their Google+ profile.
- 05In 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]”)”
- 06Confirm that your authorship is working properly by verifying with Google’s Rich Snippets tool .
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