Remove deprecated Google Authorship functionality
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f7394b9..8bc7fc6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
- Profile image and tagline
- Syntax highlighting for pre blocks
- Google Analytics (new Unified Analytics)
-- Google Authorship
- Supports displaying a custom list of links with icons in the sidebar
- Global keyword support
- Fuzzy date display using Javascript
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@
- `GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID`: Your Google Analytics UA-XXXXXXXX-X code (`None` to disable analytics).
- `GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_PROP`: Your Google Analytics property name (`None` to disable analytics).
-- `GOOGLE_PLUS_URL`: A link to your Google+ profile. Used for the [Google Authorship](http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/authorship/index.html) feature.
- `USER_LOGO_URL`: The image to display as the profile image. Can be local or a remote URL.
- `DISQUS_SITENAME`: Set this to enable Disqus comments on articles.
- `DISQUS_COLLAPSED`: Set to `True` to have article comments hidden by default. Clicking a link on the page will load them.
diff --git a/templates/base.html b/templates/base.html
index 14ec864..6fc27ed 100644
--- a/templates/base.html
+++ b/templates/base.html
@@ -17,10 +17,6 @@
<meta name="author" content="{{ AUTHOR }}">
<meta name="description" content="{% block description %}Posts by {{ AUTHOR }}{% endblock %}">
- {% if GOOGLE_PLUS_URL %}
- <link rel="author" href="{{ GOOGLE_PLUS_URL }}?rel=author">
- {% endif %}
-
{% if FEED_ALL_ATOM %}
<link href="{{ FEED_DOMAIN }}/{{ FEED_ALL_ATOM }}" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="{{ SITENAME }} Full Atom Feed" />
{% endif %}