Title: Optimizing rel="author" behaviour
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Optimizing rel="author" behaviour

 *  [cyChop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cychop/)
 * (@cychop)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-relauthor-behaviour/)
 * WordPress version: 1.4.3
    WordPress SEO version: 3.5.1
 * When using WP About Author plugin, the static part of the link to social profiles
   is automatically concatenated to the value in the user profile page. This seems
   only logical: you just provide your ID (as you do with Twitter) and the plugin
   does the rest.
 * This is inconsistent with SEO’s behaviour. Hence, either one must have a broken
   link in ‘About author’ or unrecognized `<link rel="author"/>` in `<head/>`.
 * Would it be possible for the plugin to test if the G+ field is a URL or an ID
   and act consequently?
 * Thanks for the marvelous tool and the good work.
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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-relauthor-behaviour/)
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