Advanced authorship Options – Front Page option issue

Please provide the URL for your homepage.

Hi,
https://www.hieronymus-bock.hu/
Now, the pages option is on, so you can see author on the home page.
Thanks.

I see both author and publisher meta on the homepage which is correct. I don’t see any issues.

Yes, because on Display Google Authorship: Front Page, Posts and Pages were marked.
Now I marked Front Page and Post. And I don’t see author on front page anymore.

Hi chiara7,

This is expected behavior; we specifically do not show author on the front page, because the front page isn’t an article, it’s a website, so it makes sense to have publisher there. If you’d still like to change this behavior, we do have filters in the plugin for both publisher and author (author uses the aioseop_google_author filter), so I could provide some sample code for using that filter.

Hi,
Thank you both for your attention.
Maybe I understand now the function of the Front Page checkbox. Non-checking it when Pages is checked equals excluding the Front Page from pages. Am I right?
So it’s a strange UI solution to put it at the first place. ?? One can believe, it has similar functionality as the other checkboxes. Maybe should be a good idea to rename it to “Exlude Front Page from pages” and make it active only when pages are marked…
Peter, I would appreciate that examples.

Hi chiara7,

I think you’ve got it figured out now. Here’s how you can add an author to the Front Page:

add_filter( 'aioseop_google_author', 'chiara7_author_on_front' );
function chiara7_author_on_front( $author ) {
    if ( empty( $author ) && is_front_page() ) {
		global $aioseop_options, $post;
        if ( !empty( $post ) && isset( $post->post_author ) && empty( $aioseop_options['aiosp_google_disable_profile'] ) )
			$author = get_the_author_meta( 'googleplus', $post->post_author );
		if ( empty( $author ) && !empty( $aioseop_options['aiosp_google_specify_publisher'] ) )
			$author = $aioseop_options['aiosp_google_specify_publisher'];
    }
    return $author;
}

Hi Peter,

Thank you for the code, it works fine.
I will look up what is recommended for the front page author, but now I can show the author on home page and hide it on other pages and this was my original intention. Thanks again. ??