Meta author

Contents

• Syntax
• Attributes
• Examples
  • Example 1: Use article author for meta tag content
• Genealogy
  • Version 4.6.0
  • Version 4.3.0

Syntax

<txp:meta_author />

The meta_author tag is a single tag, used in the head of an individual article page template. Textpattern will replace this tag with an HTML meta tag as follows:

<meta name="author" content="Article author's name" />

Attributes

Tag will accept the following attributes (case-sensitive) as well as the global attributes :

escape="html" v4.6.0+

Escape HTML entities such as <, > and &.

Values: See the tag escaping documentation for all possible values.

Default: html.

format="value" v4.6.0+

Display as <meta> tag or as raw value.

Values: meta or unset.

Default: meta (display as a <meta> tag).

title="boolean" v4.3.0+

Whether to display the author’s login name or real name.

Values: 0 (login name) or 1 (real name).

Default: 0.

Examples

Example 1: Use article author for meta tag content

Tag in the head of an individual article page (article’s author name is ‘Biff Tannen’):

<txp:meta_author />

This results in the following:

<meta name="author" content="Biff Tannen" />

Genealogy

Version 4.6.0

escape and format attributes added.

Version 4.3.0

title attribute added.