Show Thread Enhancements - [SEO Enhancement] rel="author" markup for thread starters

As with the new developments around schema.org standards, Google announced that they will highlight page authors in their search results as below.




To achieve this result in SERP's you need to apply authorship markup.

For vBulletin, this can be done by adding the rel="author" markup to the threads, so this tag will get linked to the profile page of thread starter.

In template postbit(_legacy) find:

<a class="bigusername" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[musername]</a>

Replace it with:

<a <if condition="$thread['postuserid'] == $post['userid'] && $thread['firstpostid'] == $post['postid']">rel="author"</if> class="bigusername" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[musername]</a>

Example: Becoming A Health Insurance Agent

Only thread starter has the rel="author" tag applied:

<a rel="author" class="bigusername" href="http://www.insurance-forums.net/forum/healthagent-4/">healthagent</a>

Note: This won't mean all of your members will show up as authors in google search results. Google will consider as original authors only those who have linked their Google Profile pages to your forum.

Works on all vB 3.x

Further reading here

I hope you find it useful.

[Manoel J?nior]

Very Thanks... Installed

[Brandon Sheley]

Nice addition!

[BirdOPrey5]

Won't this put author attribute for every post on the page, not just the first post?

[valdet]

Actually Joe, the conditional makes sure that rel="author" tag will show up at the username of only the first post.

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks. Missed that.

[synseal]

Hi, can this be done for VB4?.

TIA.

[VBIran]

For vb4 please

[Forumi Shqiptar]

Thanks Valdet very good mod

[valdet]

I don't use vB4 too much, but I will release the vB4 mod soon, once I get some free time.
Thanks all.

Humori, flm.