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Add GitHub or Any Contact Method to WordPress

Adding social contact methods to a WordPress user account admin panel doesn’t need to be difficult. If you have been around WordPress for a little while you may remember at one time there was more contact method fields, it even had some obscure ones like jabber and aim, but now there is just the bare minimum – email and website, Not even the more popular socialist sites, like Facebook and Twitter. And if you think about it it makes sense, even if WordPress could list all the different platforms, would you really want every site known, in your admin panel? Doubtful, instead WordPress leaves it up to us to

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Using rel=”me” To Link Social Media Profile Pages

You have probably heard of and use the rel="nofollow" tag or microformat in links that you don’t want search engines following. These links to external sites that you don’t want Google and other crawlers to follow because they aren’t relevant to your site’s structure. There are certain links that should be marked as rel="me" in addition to "nofollow" that go to 3rd party sites. these are sites links to the actual profile page that are about the same person as the page at hand. Because you have a GitHub page or a Facebook Page that are about the same person they should be marked as rel="me" in the code.

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