Simplify and organize _config.yml variables

_posts/2014-07-31-author-override.md

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+---
+layout: post
+title: "Author Override"
+author: billy_rick
+modified:
+excerpt: "A post to test author overrides using a data file."
+tags: []
+---
+
+For those of you who may have content written by multiple authors on your site you can assign different authors to each post if desired.
+
+Traditionally you would assign a global author for the entire site and those attributes would be used in all post bylines, social networking links in the footer, Twitter Cards, and Google Authorship. These `owner` variables defined in your `config.yml`
+
+Start by creating an `authors.yml` file in the `_data` folder and add your authors using the following format.
+
+{% highlight yaml %}
+# Authors
+
+billy_rick:
+  name: Billy Rick
+  web: http://thewhip.com
+  email: billy@rick.com
+  bio: "What do you want, jewels? I am a very extravagant man."
+  avatar: bio-photo.jpg
+  twitter: extravagantman
+
+cornelius_fiddlebone:
+  name: Cornelius Fiddlebone
+  email: cornelius@thewhip.com
+  bio: "I ordered what?"
+  avatar: bio-photo.jpg
+  twitter: rhymeswithsackit
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+To assign Billy Rick as an author for our post. We'd add the following YAML front matter to a post:
+
+{% highlight yaml %}
+author: billy_rick
+{% endhighlight %}