[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23143: Change user "website" profile field to "Web Profile page"

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#23143: Change user "website" profile field to "Web Profile page"
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 Reporter:  mark-k           |       Type:  enhancement
   Status:  new              |   Priority:  normal
Milestone:  Awaiting Review  |  Component:  Users
  Version:                   |   Severity:  normal
 Keywords:                   |
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 WordPress have almost all the tools in place to support 3-link google
 authorship as described in http://searchengineland.com/the-definitive-
 guide-to-google-authorship-markup-123218 without any need of a plugin, and
 the only obstacle is not having a place in which to specify the G+ profile
 URL.

 I suggest to change slightly the meaning of the "Website" profile field to
 mean "the user profile page" instead of any random URL the user has
 control of. The only required code change for every theme to be able to
 support google authorship without plugins is to change get_the_author_link
 to return a link with rel="me" instead of rel="author".

 I don't think that this semantic change is that far from the current usage
 of that field to create any problem to anyone using it right now.

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