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A Jekyll plugin to add metadata tags for search engines and social networks to better index and display your site's content.
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Removed support for meta `author` #474

Open danielhaim1 opened 2 years ago

danielhaim1 commented 2 years ago

Summary

Removed <meta name="author" /> tag

  1. <meta name="author" /> has been dropped back in 2014.
  2. <meta name="author" /> is used incorrectly in the template.

Further information:

The correct way to use the authorship tag is:

<a href="/authorname/archive" rel="author">Author Name</a>

or when citing a source:

<meta name="citation_title" content="Crystal structure of squid rhodopsin" />
<meta name="citation_publication_date" content="1999" />
<meta name="citation_author" content="Murakami, Midori" />
<meta name="citation_author" content="Kouyama, Tsutomu" />
<meta name="citation_pdf_url" content="crist_struct.pdf" />

This is directly related to an outdated pull #363