twitter:creator:id support for WordPress.com?

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  owenblacker · Member · Apr 12, 2013 at 12:13 pm

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  I know that WordPress.com adds in most of the Twitter Cards meta tags for us (try putting a WordPress.com blog URL into the Twitter Cards validator if you want to see it)

  Might it be possible for a configuration setting to be added to allow us to specify the twitter:creator:id value?

  At the moment, the Twitter Card will show that it’s from WordPress.com, with a link to @wordpressdotcom. Now this makes perfect sense, especially for a hosted service. But there is also a field for the content creator, and it’d be nice to be able to point that at my own Twitter account.

  Is there any chance that could be added to the featureset for WordPress.com at some point?

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 12, 2013 at 12:40 pm

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  The option you request exists; a forum search would have turned up the link. http://waqasali.me/2011/08/14/how-to-add-a-tweet-button-with-your-twitter-username-into-wordpress-com/

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  owenblacker · Member · Apr 12, 2013 at 2:37 pm

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  @raincoaster: I did search the forums, but that didn’t come up — presumably because a Tweet button is nothing to do with Twitter Cards and it hadn’t occurred to me that Publicize would be the way to establish that link.

  I don’t particularly want WordPress.com having write permissions to my Twitter feed (which is partly the fault of Twitter’s crappy permissions granularity, I do get that). So something more lightweight to provide this functionality would still be good.

  In any case, thanks for the pointer, raincoaster,

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  roycornelissen · Member · May 2, 2013 at 10:56 am

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  I’m also interested in being able to influence these meta-tags. Any luck with this?

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  raincoaster · Member · May 2, 2013 at 11:03 am

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  Did you read the link I posted?

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  roycornelissen · Member · May 3, 2013 at 10:44 am

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  Yeah, I did, and I followed the steps to add the custom Tweet button. This works fine, but it doesn’t change the “twitter:” metatags in the HTML.

  Now, a Twitter card shows up like this, using the @wordpressdotcom handle:

  https://twitter.com/roycornelissen/status/324670573739380737
  This is because of the “twitter:” meta tags in the HTML:

  <meta name=”twitter:site” content=”@wordpressdotcom” />
  <meta name=”twitter:card” content=”summary” />
  <meta name=”twitter:creator” content=”@wordpressdotcom” />

  I want the twitter:creator tag to contain my own Twitter handle and there seems to be no way to influence this.