How to add Google author and publisher information?

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  mirkoboehm · Member · Nov 9, 2012 at 9:16 am

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  Hi! How do I add the Google author and publisher information added to my wordpress.com blog at http://creative-destruction.me?

  The procedure is described here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986
  Blog url: http://creativedestructiondotme.wordpress.com/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  mirkoboehm · Member · Nov 9, 2012 at 9:39 am

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  Adding more information: When checking the blog against http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=creative-destruction.me&html= , the following warnings appear:

  * Page does not contain authorship markup.
  * Page does not contain publisher markup.

  and further down, for the individual posts:
  * Warning: Missing required field “updated”.
  * Warning: Missing required hCard “author”.

  I would like all of these errors to go away :-) It should be possible to add this information globally for the whole blog or per author.

  I have added the Google+ profile to the Gravatar services. Not sure how I should wait before this is picked up?

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Nov 13, 2012 at 4:30 pm

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  Hi there – here is a guide on adding Google authorship information to WordPress.com sites:
  http://graphiclineweb.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/relauthor/

  Let us know if you need further assistance.

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  mirkoboehm · Member · Nov 21, 2012 at 10:04 pm

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  Hi!

  Thanks for the pointer. Adding the author information worked and solved the problem, great!

  and further down, for the individual posts:
  * Warning: Missing required field “updated”.
  * Warning: Missing required hCard “author”.

  This problem remains, though. Is there a way to add the updated and author fields?

  All the best,

  Mirko.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Nov 23, 2012 at 3:03 pm

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  Adding the author information worked and solved the problem, great!

  Glad to hear it.

  Is there a way to add the updated and author fields?

  Unfortunately it’s not possible at this time. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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  mirkoboehm · Member · Nov 24, 2012 at 1:11 pm

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  Considering that attribution is a very important aspect of blogging, I think WordPress.com should fix this soon. One main reason for using a professional blogging service is that it handles such issues for me. It would be great if these tags could simply be added by WordPress.com by default. Thanks!

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  jenia · Member · Nov 26, 2012 at 12:55 pm

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  Thank you for your suggestion! I’ve added it to our list of possible future improvements.