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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: []
---
For those of you who may have content written by multiple authors on your site you can assign different authors to each post if desired.
Traditionally you would assign a global author for the entire site and those attributes would be used in all post bylines, social networking links in the footer, Twitter Cards, and Google Authorship. These `owner` variables defined in your `config.yml`
Start by creating an `authors.yml` file in the `_data` folder and add your authors using the following format.
{% 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."
avatar: bio-photo.jpg
twitter: extravagantman
cornelius_fiddlebone:
name: Cornelius Fiddlebone
email: cornelius@thewhip.com
bio: "I ordered what?"
avatar: bio-photo.jpg
twitter: rhymeswithsackit
{% endhighlight %}
To assign Billy Rick as an author for our post. We'd add the following YAML front matter to a post:
{% highlight yaml %}
author: billy_rick
{% endhighlight %}