How does google authorship sync with bbPress? Is the topic creator/question asker credited with authorship or the first responder?

For the site I’m planning to incorporate bb Press on, attributing to first responder would be helpful.

Thoughts, answers?

[LynqParticipant @lynq 5 months, 2 weeks ago]

Does google authorship require a link to the persons google plus account? Or is that not the only way to do it?

[oconn146Participant @oconn146 5 months, 2 weeks ago]

Google authorship requires a piece of meta data (rel=author) on the published work that does sync back to the Google plus account.

Thoughts on whether bb press posts can be attributed to a given author for G Authorship purposes?

John

[Jared AtchisonModerator @jaredatch 5 months, 1 week ago]

Right now bbPress doesn’t do anything with that.

It’s a good idea, but a plugin would need to be made to capture each users Google+ profile link (assuming there is one) and then put the stuff in the header as needed.

[Martin ( Martin_C )Participant @martin_c 5 months, 1 week ago]

The following is what I use at AppGlobe:

/* Add Google+ profile URL as profile contact method  */

function appglobe_add_google_profile( $contactmethods ) {

$contactmethods['google_profile_url'] = ‘Google Profile URL’;

return $contactmethods;

}
add_filter( 'user_contactmethods', 'appglobe_add_google_profile', 10, 1);


/* Remove nofollow, and ad author to the profile link */

function appglobe_switch_nofollow_for_author($str) {

$str = preg_replace(

‘~<a ([^>]*)\s*(["|\']{1}\w*)\s*nofollow([^>]*)>~U’,

‘<a ${1}${2}${3}>’, $str);

return str_replace(array(‘ rel=”"‘, ” rel=””), ‘rel=author’, $str);

}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_author_link', 'appglobe_switch_nofollow_for_author' );

And then in your user-profile.php (create a bbpress folder in your theme root, and copy it over) you can add this:


<?php if( bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'google_profile_url' ) ) : ?>

<h2 class=”author-subtitle”>Google Profile</h2>

<?php if( bbp_get_user_role(bbp_get_displayed_user_id()) == ‘bbp_keymaster’ || bbp_get_user_role(bbp_get_displayed_user_id()) == ‘bbp_moderator’) : ?>

<a rel=”me” class=”bbp-user-url” href=”<?php esc_url(bbp_displayed_user_field( ‘google_profile_url’ )); ?>”><?php bbp_displayed_user_field( ‘google_profile_url’ ); ?>

</a>

<?php else : ?>

<a rel=”me nofollow” class=”bbp-user-url” href=”<?php esc_url(bbp_displayed_user_field( ‘google_profile_url’)); ?>”><?php bbp_displayed_user_field( ‘google_profile_url’); ?>

</a>

<?php endif; ?>

Since I beleave only the first rel=me link on a page counts there would be best to use topic lead:

add_filter( 'bbp_show_lead_topic', '__return_true' );

…by doing so each page will be considered authored by the topic creator even if its paged.

[Jared AtchisonModerator @jaredatch 5 months, 1 week ago]

That’s interesting, but not quite the approach he was asking about (from my understanding).

I think he was referring to the google rich snippets that show up if the page supports the appropriate meta (http://yoast.com/push-rel-author-head/)

You could use a good chunk of the code that is posted above (the part where it sets up a field for google+), then on topic pages get the topic user’s ID, and use that to put in the line above.

[Martin ( Martin_C )Participant @martin_c 5 months, 1 week ago]

Yes thats what I’m referring to as well . It doesn’t matter if you use meta links in the head section ( <link rel=”author” …) or content links such as &lta rel=”author”.

You can for example try my welcome topic at appglobe.com by searching google.com with the frase: appglobe.com welcome

…or you could try the google rich snippet tool for the welcome topic URL here: here

…but still there’s a problem with Google seeing only full pages as authored by an single author, not sections within a page( such as replies ), but they probably get to multi authored pages pretty soon

 

[Martin ( Martin_C )Participant @martin_c 5 months, 1 week ago]

Of course the user has to add his G+ profile URL manually (so that the rel=”me” link points to his/her profile) for his picture to show up in SERPs, but having a rel=author in the links from topics or replies to his/her profile still makes sence.

If future versions of bbpress would start using more HTML5 each reply could be an &lt;article/&gt; element which would be more semantic for Google authorship.

But for now only one author for a page counts ( the first one ). Thats why I suggested using lead topics so that the topic creator get the authorship on paged topics.

[Jared AtchisonModerator @jaredatch 5 months, 1 week ago]

Ah in that case, I think thats great. Since the author is the primary content creator of the thread, all things considering, I think it will work well.

You should considering polishing up that code and releasing it as a bbPress plugin on the WordPress.org plugin repository You’d have to dynamically hook into the user edit page and maybe a few other changes, but the base of the work there is probably done.

[Martin ( Martin_C )Participant @martin_c 5 months, 1 week ago]

I think I will do that, but what do mean by dynamically hooking into the user edit page?