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layout: post
title: "Author Override"
author: billy_rick
modified:
excerpt: "A post to test author overrides using a data file."
tags: []
---
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For those of you who may have content written by multiple authors on your site you can now assign different authors to each post if desired.
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Previously the theme used a global author for the entire site and those attributes would be used in all bylines, social networking links, Twitter Card attribution, and Google Authorship. These `owner` variables were defined in `config.yml`
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Start by modifying or creating a new `authors.yml` file in the `_data` folder and add your authors using the following format.
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{% highlight yaml %}
# Authors
billy_rick:
name: Billy Rick
web: http://thewhip.com
email: billy@rick.com
bio: "What do you want, jewels? I am a very extravagant man."
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avatar: bio-photo-2.jpg
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twitter: extravagantman
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google:
plus: +BillyRick
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cornelius_fiddlebone:
name: Cornelius Fiddlebone
email: cornelius@thewhip.com
bio: "I ordered what?"
avatar: bio-photo.jpg
twitter: rhymeswithsackit
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google:
plus: +CorneliusFiddlebone
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{% endhighlight %}
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To assign Billy Rick as an author for our post. You'd add the following YAML front matter to a post:
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{% highlight yaml %}
author: billy_rick
{% endhighlight %}