Use `dc:creator` for author of the post in RSS

[deadcoder0904]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I want to set the author of the post in RSS.

Describe the solution you'd like Use dc:creator in order to display the author of the post.

Additional context See https://css-tricks.com/feed/ or https://blog.logrocket.com/feed/ for an example of dc:creator

[jpmonette]

@deadcoder0904 Which app is parsing this attribute? Any documentation out there?

[deadcoder0904]

I think Reeder for Mac does. Check the screenshot for the author's name with red color.

Idk where to find the documentation but when I search dc:creator rss on Google → https://www.google.com/search?q=dc%3Acreator+rss, I get https://github.com/snaptortoise/jekyll-rss-feeds/issues/12

However, I've been seeing it a lot in blog feeds lately :)

[chazmcgarvey]

The creator element is from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

Here's the schema: https://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/2008/02/11/dc.xsd

This element is seen all the time on feeds associated with WordPress blogs. It has become popular and generally preferred over the author element because the latter requires publishing an email address. The format for the creator element content is less restrictive and usually is just a name or username/handle.

Ref: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#namespace-elements-dublin

@deadcoder0904 Your patch seems okay. I'd love to see it merged.

Edit: Actually it does need one small fix. If creator is used we also need to add the schema. Looking at the code, this can be done by just setting isContent to true... although I don't know why the dc and content schemas are associated with the same logic; I think there should be a separate isDublinCore variable...

[udit-001]

Any updates on this? Since I was trying to submit my RSS feed to flipboard and their specification requires me to include the author using this tag only, I have got lots of feed going on in my blog using this module, it would be great to be able to include this tag as well!

Flipboard Spec : https://about.flipboard.com/rss-spec/

[rodrigo-arias]

Coming from WordPress feeds I would really appreciate it if this was an option available. This is a much more flexible and less restrictive field than author for the reasons that @chazmcgarvey already explained. @jpmonette do you think something additional is necessary to move forward with 234? Thanks.