In pkgdown: Make Static HTML Documentation for a Package

Authors

By default, pkgdown will display author information in three places:

the sidebar,
the left part side of the footer,
the author page.

This documentation describes how to customise the overall author display. See ?build_home and ?build_site for details about changing the location of the authors information within the home sidebar and the site footer.

Authors ORCID and bio

Author ORCID identification numbers in the DESCRIPTION are linked using the ORCID logo:

Authors@R: c(
    person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@rstudio.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4757-117X")
    ),
    person("Jay", "Hesselberth", role = "aut",
      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6299-179X")
    )
  )

If you want to add more details about authors or their involvement with the package, you can use the comment field, which will be rendered on the authors page.

Authors@R: c(
    person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@rstudio.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4757-117X", "Indenter-in-chief")
    ),
    person("Jay", "Hesselberth", role = "aut",
      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6299-179X")
    )
  )

YAML config - authors

You can tweak a few things via the authors YAML field:

display of each author in the footer, sidebar and authors page,
which authors (by role) are displayed in the sidebar and footer,
text before authors in the footer,
text before and after authors in the sidebar,
text before and after authors on the authors page.

You can modify how each author's name is displayed by adding a subsection for authors. Each entry in authors should be named with the author's name (matching DESCRIPTION) and can contain href and/or html fields:

If href is provided, the author's name will be linked to this URL.
If html is provided, it will be shown instead of the author's name. This is particularly useful if you want to display the logo of a corporate sponsor. Use an absolute URL to an image, not a relative link.

authors:
  firstname lastname:
    href: "http://name-website.com"
    html: "<img src='https://website.com/name-picture.png' width=72>"

By default, the "developers" list shown in the sidebar and footer is populated by the maintainer ("cre"), authors ("aut"), and funder ("fnd") from the DESCRIPTION. You could choose other roles for filtering. With the configuration below:

only the maintainer and funder(s) appear in the footer, after the text "Crafted by",
all authors and contributors appear in the sidebar,
the authors list on the sidebar is preceded and followed by some text,
the authors list on the authors page is preceded and followed by some text.

authors:
  footer:
    roles: [cre, fnd]
    text: "Crafted by"
  sidebar:
    roles: [aut, ctb]
    before: "So *who* does the work?"
    after: "Thanks all!"
  before: "This package is proudly brought to you by:"
  after: "See the [changelog](news/index.html) for other contributors. :pray:"

If you want to filter authors based on something else than their roles, consider using a custom sidebar/footer component (see ?build_home/?build_site, respectively).