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Playing more with the google author code, it is definitely good for SEO to have a google profile xprofile field, with a rel=”me” attribute.

Any ideas on how to assign this?

Thanks!

I’d be very interested in this as well.

Here’s an article by Yoast where we explains how to add rel=”me” to standard WP profiles. Any thoughts on how we could incorporate this into BP Profiles?

I’m assuming it could be as simple as a short snip of code that adds the attribute to the profile field, but maybe it’s more complicated…

Here’s the article… http://yoast.com/wordpress-rel-author-rel-me

The politest of bumps…

@boonebgorges
Any chance this could be added to Custom Profile Filters?

Yeah, this isn’t super easy to do with regards to UI. Adding this type of microformat markup to core is something I would personally like to see in BP 1.4.

@djpaul
For now, I’m not worried about the user interface. Hardcoding it in somewhere would be ample.

This will be big for SEO.

//relme
function relme ($output) {
        global $bp;
   if ( bp_field_has_data( '782' ) ) {
	return str_replace('<a ','<a rel="me" ',$output);
 }
}
add_filter('xprofile_screen_display_profile', 'relme');

I’m doing my best to hack my way through this. Here’s what I have – it doesn’t work, but it also doesn’t break the site.

Field #782 is my Google Profile ID field.

Try adding it with jQuery

hnla: No, that’s not a good idea because Google will ignore it with jQuery.

Greg: I agree hardcoding it is a good idea, but I always have core in mind when I read this sort of discussion xprofile_screen_display_profile is an action, not a filter. I assume you’re trying to change the value of an xprofiel field. ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_value’ is probably the filter you want.

function gf_relme($value, $type, $id) {
  if (782 == $id) {
    return str_replace('<a ','<a rel="me" ',$value);
  }
}
add_filter('bp_get_the_profile_field_value', 'gf_relme', 10, 3);

@djpaul
That did the trick of adding rel=”me” – but now none of the other profile fields show.

See: http://housingstorm.com/gregfielding/profile/

oh, doh. put an

else { return $value; }

after the if closing bracket.

While we’re talking about rel=me, what’s your opinion on if I add rel=”me” on the field(s) in BP-Default for BP 1.3? Bear in mind all the different member sub profile pages etc.

Thanks Paul – that works great.

You mean on all fields? I don’t think it would hurt anything…

Sorry, on these ones: http://i55.tinypic.com/1qk977.png