"twitter:creator" is set wrong with multiple users

[mehmandarov]

When having several authors, <meta name="twitter:creator"...> gets set to "@username" (from _config.yml) and not "@author.twitter".

[mehmandarov]

If that helps, I am still able to get the twitter user via: "{{author[page.author].twitter}}".

[benbalter]

@mehmandarov are you able to push up a failing test to reproduce this?

It should only use site.author if page.author (or page.authors.first) is empty

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[mehmandarov]

@benbalter: I have a configuration that gives that error available online – both config and the running site. Not yet sure how to reproduce this in the tests as I need to set up the dev environment.

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[benbrignell]

I'm currently experiencing what I think this issue describes.

Here's some more information about what's happening.

Context:
I've set my global twitter username in config.yml. Each page on the site has a unique author/creator which in most cases is an actual name.

I'm seeing page.author being used by jekyll-seo-tag which in the majority of cases displays a non-valid twittername.

The issue with only use site.author if page.author (or page.authors.first) is empty referenced above is that page.author isn't ever empty and is rarely a twitter name.

Here's an example of my frontmatter:

layout: example
title: Mercedes-Benz Design Philosophy
author: Mercedes-Benz

Here's the resulting open graph data.

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" />
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@dsgnprinciples" />
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@Mercedes-Benz" />

@Mercedes-Benz in this case is not a valid Twitter username.

It would be great to be able to either globally define twitter:creator for display when twitter:creator is not available, specify it where twitter:creator is available or if all else fails omit it where not available.

Thanks.

(For further context and to see a working example here's the repo if it's helpful https://github.com/benbrignell/principles.design)

[mehmandarov]

Yes, this seems to be the same error, @benbrignell.

[benbalter]

It would be great to be able to either globally define twitter:creator for display when twitter:creator is not available, specify it where twitter:creator is available or if all else fails omit it where not available.

You can do this via front matter defaults, setting the default author twitter globally, and then overriding per post.

[benbrignell]

Thanks Ben, how would I override per post if only author is used (as above), when author is an actual name not a Twitter handle?

(If that makes sense)

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