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Authors

Post authors

Authors can be defined in a blog post using the authors frontmatter property and must at least have a name property:

src/content/docs/blog/blog-post.md
---
authors:
name: HiDeoo
title: Starlight Aficionado
picture: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/494699
url: https://hideoo.dev
---

Multiple authors can be defined using an array:

src/content/docs/blog/blog-post.md
---
authors:
- name: HiDeoo
title: Starlight Aficionado
picture: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/494699
url: https://hideoo.dev
- name: Ghost
picture: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10137
url: https://github.com/ghost
---

Global authors

Regular authors can also be defined globally in the Starlight Blog plugin configuration:

astro.config.mjs
starlightBlog({
authors: {
hideoo: {
name: 'HiDeoo',
title: 'Starlight Aficionado',
picture: '/hideoo.png', // Images in the `public` directory are supported.
url: 'https://hideoo.dev',
},
},
})

When a blog post frontmatter does not define an author, the global authors from the configuration will be used instead.

A blog post frontmatter can also reference a global author using the key of the author in the configuration:

src/content/docs/blog/blog-post.md
---
authors:
- hideoo # Will use the author defined in the configuration with the `hideoo` key.
- name: Ghost
picture: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10137
url: https://github.com/ghost
---