About tag meta name="Author" content="">

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A doubt I always have, this Meta tag is for the name of the owner of the company or who made the template?

meta name="author" content="">
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The meta tag Author serves as a kind of electronic signature of whoever developed the page. If it was created by an autonomous developer, you can put the name of the developer; if the developer works for the company that owns the page, you can put, in addition to the name of the developer, the name of the company too, whatever. There is no rule for this.

Developer name:

<meta name="author" content="João">

Or company name:

<meta name="author" content="Empresa X">

Or both:

<meta name="author" content="João - Empresa X">

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I’d tell you to use the meta tag copyright if you want to declare who is the copyright owner of the template.

<meta name="copyright" content="© 2018 Wesley Vicente" />

You can also use the tags Dublin Core Metadata to declare this.

<meta name="DC.rights" content="https://Wesley-Vicent.com/termos-de-uso.html">

or

<meta name="dcterms:rightsHolder" content="Wesley Vicent">

https://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/dcterms:rightsHolder
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#Terms-rightsHolder

Thus you leave the authorship of the content of the page to those who actually use the template, but reserves the copyright of the creation of the template for vc. I see author as "who writes" and not as "owner of rights". The documentation is not very clear on this subject... and goes from its interpretation and ethics also depending on the case...

The interesting thing is that a good part of the meta tags are ignored by the search engines and by the browser itself. Here is a complete list, and even has a tag web_author to indicate who developed the site https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions

Take a test yourself, take the code below with the custom meta tag <meta name="desenvolvedor" content=" seu nome aqui"> and test on W3C code validator that you will see will not present errors. https://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <title>Page Title</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    
    <!-- tag meta customizasda -->
    <meta name="desenvolvedor" content=" seu nome aqui">
    
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

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