Thanks for your reply. Yes, that thread shows several people are using a taxonomy for authors, which is a method I’m familiar with from my earlier searching. The main reason I don’t want to do this is that even in support multi-authorship, it should cleanly failback and support a primary author. Using taxonomies it requires the addition of authorship information in the front matter of every post, that’s the only way to get that. My goal with using .Site.Authors is to use information stored in the site config as a failback if nothing is specified in the front matter of a post, so that the post meta can “always” contain an authors object.