{"id":2442,"date":"2013-02-16T18:07:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T07:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2013-02-16T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T07:07:14","slug":"dont-make-me-guess-who-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2013\/02\/16\/dont-make-me-guess-who-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t make me guess who you are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read Planet Mozilla through Google Reader.\u00a0 When I see a post with a title that sounds interesting, I open it in a new tab.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m lucky, I&#8217;ll get a blog that looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2013\/02\/blog-header.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2443\" alt=\"blog header\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2013\/02\/blog-header.png\" width=\"953\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2013\/02\/blog-header.png 953w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2013\/02\/blog-header-300x130.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s totally clear whose blog this is.\u00a0 This is good.\u00a0 Bonus points for a subtitle that gives a good idea of what the blog is about.<\/p>\n<p>But all too often the author&#8217;s name isn&#8217;t prominent.\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s down the bottom of the post:\u00a0 &#8220;Posted by J. Programmer.&#8221;\u00a0 Sometimes it&#8217;s tucked away on a separate &#8220;about&#8221; page.\u00a0 Sometimes people use a nickname that is meaningless to me.\u00a0 And sometimes there is no name at all.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s even worse when this lack of identification is combined with one of the common WordPress templates &#8212; then I can&#8217;t even tell if I&#8217;m reading the same blog as the last one I saw that had that same theme.<\/p>\n<p>So:\u00a0 put your name somewhere prominent on your blog.\u00a0 Preferably in the title or subtitle.\u00a0 Please don&#8217;t make me guess who you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Planet Mozilla through Google Reader.\u00a0 When I see a post with a title that sounds interesting, I open it in a new tab.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m lucky, I&#8217;ll get a blog that looks like this: It&#8217;s totally clear whose blog this is.\u00a0 This is good.\u00a0 Bonus points for a subtitle that gives a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}