People Authorship

Overview

Find these under People → Settings, in Authorship. Authorship lets you pick people from your directory as the authors of posts, pages, articles, and events. Their author cards can appear on that content, and their person page can list everything they wrote.

Settings

• Enable Authorship: adds an Authors picker to posts, pages, articles, and events (default on)

On posts

• Display Authorship: show author cards with a post's details (default off)
• Max Author Columns: author cards side by side before they wrap (1–3)
• Author Card Name Style: text style for names on author cards
• Author Card Hide Excerpt: leave out the short description on author cards
• Author Meta Title: heading above the author cards (default "Contributors"; blank for none)
• Author Meta Description: optional line under that heading

On person pages

• Display on Author Pages: list a person's posts under their bio (default off)
• Author Posts Title: heading for that list (default "Contributed posts")
• Author Posts Columns: posts per row
• Author Posts Style: Default (a grid), Cards or List

Preview

Under the settings, a preview shows the author cards under a sample post, with three made-up people. It updates a moment after each change, before you save, so you can see what the columns, name style and heading do. Use the buttons beside it to see it at desktop, tablet or phone size. With Display Authorship off, it says so instead, because posts show no author cards. The sample people aren't added to your directory.

Tips

• Turn on Display Authorship when news posts should credit staff by name and headshot.