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User Extended Fields Suggestion

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11 years 6 months ago #111356 by Steven Johnson
User Extended Fields Suggestion was created by Steven Johnson
I love extended user fields because it allows me add social profiles to my K2 authors

The Google Plus button is particular important because of the rel="author" property. When you set your G+ page link you can attribute your posts to a specific author. The authors image can then show up in the search result pages.

K2 User Extended does not handle this very well.

In the plugin template the rel="nofollow" not rel="author"

Google has an option to add ?rel=author to the end of the G+ Profile link but the template adds a "/" to the end of the profile link and that breaks the functionality of the link.
support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2539557


In the next release of User Extended Fields would it be possible to either

1. Set a control value that allows the Administrator to turn on or off rel="author"

2. Change the plugin template from
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