From f8cedfbcd8a84e8e81182e66fa53e56b9fd59be4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chandler Thompson <3262190+chandlertee@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2026 20:58:27 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix(schema): resolve article author from data/authors
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schema.html always read the author from .Site.Params.Author, so the
structured-data author was the site-level author (or empty) regardless of a
post's `authors` front matter — even though the theme supports multiple
authors via data/authors/.

Resolve the first `authors` key against data/authors/ and emit that author's
name, image and sameAs (from their social/links), falling back to the
site-level author. Single-author output is unchanged apart from the additive
image and sameAs fields.

Fixes #2943

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 layouts/partials/schema.html | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/layouts/partials/schema.html b/layouts/partials/schema.html
index 76d6ea0c..0962d439 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/schema.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/schema.html
@@ -17,6 +17,22 @@
   </script>
 {{ else }}
   {{- $iso8601 := "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" -}}
+  {{- /* Resolve the author: first `authors` front matter key looked up in data/authors/, else the site author. */ -}}
+  {{- $author := .Site.Params.Author -}}
+  {{- with .Params.authors -}}
+    {{- with index site.Data.authors (index . 0 | lower) -}}
+      {{- $author = . -}}
+    {{- end -}}
+  {{- end -}}
+  {{- /* sameAs from social profiles: data/authors uses `social`, the site author uses `links` (each a {platform: url} map). */ -}}
+  {{- $sameAs := slice -}}
+  {{- range (or $author.social $author.links) -}}
+    {{- range $platform, $url := . -}}
+      {{- if not (strings.HasPrefix $url "mailto:") -}}
+        {{- $sameAs = $sameAs | append $url -}}
+      {{- end -}}
+    {{- end -}}
+  {{- end -}}
   <script type="application/ld+json">
   [{
     "@context": "https://schema.org",
@@ -29,7 +45,9 @@
     "url" : {{ .Permalink }},
     "author" : {
       "@type": "Person",
-      "name": "{{ .Site.Params.Author.name | safeJS }}"
+      "name": "{{ $author.name | safeJS }}"{{ with $author.image }},
+      "image": {{ . | absURL }}{{ end }}{{ if $sameAs }},
+      "sameAs": [{{ range $i, $u := $sameAs }}{{ if $i }}, {{ end }}{{ $u }}{{ end }}]{{ end }}
     },
     {{ with .PublishDate }}"copyrightYear": "{{ .Format "2006" }}",{{ end }}
     {{ with .Date }}"dateCreated": "{{ .Format $iso8601 }}",{{ end }}